Word: dallas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bulky, balding Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre continued in the editor's chair of Osservatore Romano, was still flanked by bodyguards wherever he went. Within the Vatican, friends of the Allies grumbled that Pius XII's predecessor would not have let his newspaper be gagged. But the story went around that Pius XII had stiffened when Professor Guido Gonella, pro-Ally commentator for Osservatore, disappeared for two days. The Holy Father threatened a broadcast to the world. Professor Gonella reappeared...
Fascist partisans favored ousting Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre of Osservatore Romano, even though his paper, now confined to the Vatican, had abandoned its impartial stand, no longer mentioned the word "democracies." Count Dalla Torre acquired two bodyguards...
...Osservatore Romano, semiofficial organ of the Holy See. When Germany invaded Poland last September, Osservatore Romano's circulation jumped from 40,000 to 130,000 during the Polish campaign, because it was the only paper in which Italians could read news from both sides. Later, Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre decided to limit his paper's circulation rather than risk making trouble (TIME. April...
...common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again. That day Editor Dalla Torre printed 150,000 copies, speeded up the Vatican's little press until it almost shook apart...
Most of Osservatore Romano's war news had been printed in a column called Acta Diurna, in which squat, dark, astute Professor Guido Gonella, with a strong pro-Ally slant, digested daily communiques from London, Paris, Berlin. Editor Dalla Torre dropped Professor Gonella's column. Without Acta Diurna, Osservatore Romano came out as usual for subscribers, but the last free paper in Italy had been bottled up, almost as good as suppressed...