Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cominform communique charged Tito and three of his Communist ministers with the deadly sins of "nationalism" and "Trotzkyism." The offending ministers specifically named were Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, Minister for Montenegro Milovan Djilas and Interior (police) Minister Alexander Rankovic...
...time it produced Prince Victor Emmanuel, the 900-year-old House of Savoy was wearing a bit thin. The Prince's father, King Umberto I, decided to improve the breed by marrying off little (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel.to booming, strapping (6 ft.) Elena, daughter of Montenegro's peasant king, Nicholas. In his 46 years as King of Italy, and sometime ruler of Albania and Ethiopia, Victor Emmanuel confirmed his father's early suspicion that there was room for improvement...
...amiable James Bruce, 54, vice president of the National Dairy Products Corp. Son of Maryland's onetime Democratic Senator, Princeton-mate of Navy Secretary James Forrestal, James Bruce was no trained diplomat. Aside from a short tour as assistant military attache in Rome, and as special representative in Montenegro for the Versailles peace conference, he had stuck to banking and finance...
Individual performances within the twisted framework of the plot were comparatively satisfactory. Gino Cervi as Mozart looked and acted the abstract conception of the composer, and Luigi Pavese as his father was adequately Deutsch. Italian actresses, unfortunately, do not seem to fill the bill of love interest: Conchita Montenegro as Aloysia would be enough to frighten Eric von Stroheim...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...