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...arrested at his hotel bedroom window calmly puffing a cigaret and training a high-power rifle upon the balcony of Signor Mussolini's office, from which II Duce was shortly to deliver his Armistice Day: address. A special military tribunal sat upon the case last week in the grim Roman Palazzo di Giustizia; but the prisoner faced only the normal Italian criminal law. Recent legislation providing the death penalty for attempts on the Premier's life is not retroactive (TIME, Nov. 15, 22), and would-be-assassin Tito Zaniboni faced, last week, a maximum penalty of 27 years in jail...
...noon the Pope ate fresh eggs, the gift of Trappist monks," John Gunther, Rome correspondent, hastened to radio to the Chicago Daily News on Holy Saturday (day before Easter Sunday). His evidence was warning to Roman Catholics that Pope Pius XI was a man, no god. They must not, as the ignorant among them are prone to do in their mystic exaltations during Holy Week, imagine Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti other than a onetime boy in Milan, onetime Papal Nuncio to Poland, onetime cardinal, now the 260th successor to St. Peter as head of their Church. They are no Egyptians...
When President Paul von Hindenburg maneuvered the German Monarchists into entering and supporting the new "Big Coalition Cabinet" of Chancellor Wilhelm Marx (TIME, Feb. 7), there stepped up to shoulder the weighty Portfolio of Finance a Roman Catholic Centrist then internationally little known, Dr. Heinrich Koehler. Immediately he became famed by uttering early, late and often the most dire and pessimistic warnings that Germany would not for long be able to meet her scheduled payments under the Dawes Plan. Yet when Dr. Koehler presented his first Budget, not even his inveterate pessimism could becloud several cheerful facts...
Commander de Pinedo could scarcely help gritting his teeth at the young matchflicker who had undone him, but he detected no anti-Fascist plot. Not so the Roman press. There, where Fascist de Pinedo is regarded as a fit first mate for Christopher Columbus, headlines snarled: "VILE CRIME AGAINST FASCISM," "ODIOUS ACT OF ANTI-FASCISTS." A villain was even named by name, one Vacirca, an exile. Proudly piped Il Piccolo: "STRONG WILL OF MUSSOLINI WILL CONTINUE FLIGHT." Commander de Pinedo proceeded to Los Angeles (and doubtless to Hollywood), to wait...
...that is higher than sanity during a wilderness period following the failure of his first marriage, but regained a balance fortified by the experience. It taught him the relation of self-expansion and self-obliteration, the phases by which, like two legs constantly passing each other, mankind has marched-Roman power, Christian abnegation; Renaissance, Reformation; hayfoot, strawfoot. He renewed the motion of his days, saying: "The stream of life, like running water, can purify itself...