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Rome Letter
Page 2 from 4th September 1964ALAN McELWA1N REPORTING A GREAT RED tide flowed through Rome the day they buried 71-yearold Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist......

Pope' S Housing Troublr,f
Page 10 from 11th February 1966EVEN a 20th century Pope 121 can have his housing troubles, if a report currently prevalent but, as ever, unconfirmed in the Vatican is correct.......

Notes & Comments
Page 10 from 17th August 1935Railway Food What is believed to be the first quicklunch and " snack " bar for passengers at a railway-station in this country has just been......

Then A Tall White-robed Figure Came In . .
Page 1 from 19th September 1952By Douglas Hyde D URING a brief stay in Rome, on my way to Malta, the other day, I did what so many have done before me. I went to see the Pope.......

Tiimichael Wilson's
Page 3 from 14th July 1972IRome Diary This is not to mention the number of inside attacks from the Church's own priests who are in dissent with Rome, usually for one of two......

Monstrous Fruit The Physicists Sowed
Page 6 from 15th August 1975AUGUST 6, 1945. On that day -megadeath became a reality before the word itself existed. in one second of hell, more than 70,000 people died, more......

R R Rome Diary By Alan Mcelwa1n
Page 3 from 2nd August 1968Tax move threat to Lateran Treaty T HE present row between the Vatican and the Italian Government over taxes is seen here as shaping up into the......

Fear And Loathing In ‘bribesville’
Page 11 from 15th October 2004J R Jolliffe wonders why the citizens of Berlusconi’s Italy tolerate standards in public life that would shame a banana republic Berlusconi’s......

Letter From
Page 8 from 15th March 1963ROME by Alan McElwain WE LL. Mr. Alexis Adzhubei, Mr. Krushchev's journalist son-in-law, got his Papal audience after all—sorry, "informal talk",......

A Local Hero’s Wedding
Page 20 from 10th July 2009Stuart Reid Charterhouse ast week I was in Predappio, in the Romagna, where Benito Mussolini was born and is buried. I was there as an observer,......