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Back in the early 1920s, many world leaders became inspired by the dreams of Benito Mussolini to recreate the Roman Empire. No exageration. This is before he became the pal of Adolph Hitler and during the days when 'Time' magazine placed him on their cover in admiration shared by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and John Reith who became known as 'Dictator of the British Air'. Of course, once he joined Hitler and began waging war in Europe while Japan waged war in Asia, no one wanted to be reminded of their earlier sentiments.
But there was one man who straddled the threads and caused ripples to emanate in all directions. His name is Guglielmo Marconi. This son of Italy married into Ireland's famous Guiness Brewery family; found his place as the doyen of wireless telegraph communications for Britain's Royal Navy; become a Senator in the Italian Grand Council of Fascism, was appointed head of its anti-Semitic Royal Academy of Scientists, and in 1931, Guglielmo Marconi created Vatican Radio for the new Vatican City State which his boss, Benito Mussolini, had brought into existence on February 11, 1929. This act by Mussolini 'restored' the idea that once again Rome was the home to a corporation sole that was managed by a reigning Pope who ruled both a temporal nation state, albeit with a tiny population, and a spiritual church with miillions of believers straddling the globe.
Benito Mussoli did not see this as the end of his dream, but the beginning of a halucination that he was on his way to recreating the Western half of the Roman Empire based upon a hoax in which the Emperor Constantine had once bequeathed on Pope Sylvestor. This fable is known as the 'Donation of Constantine'. But the irony of this tale is that it has its own roots in England's City of York.
In 1966, a converted Dutch lugger called 'Oceaan 7' became home to 'Radio 270' which broadcast from off the coastline of North Yorkshire. Just over 40 miles away in the City of York, the man who became Emperor Constantine was born. It was his life achievement that Benito Mussolini wanted to emulate in the 1930s, and which Herbert W. Amstrong warned listeners in Yorkshire about in the 1960s. This nightly half-hour intrusion into the pop chart music of today, caused many to tune away from the warning that a revived Roman Empire will destroy both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. It was a strange scenario indeed, because 'Radio 270' was a rip-off of an earlier project called 'Radio Yorkshire (Development) Ltd', that was part of a secret plan to cause the termination of the monopoly held by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The Radio Log shown right, is from the November 1966 edition of 'The Plain Truth' magazine, and it reflects the broadcasting schedule in Europe for 'The World Tomorrow' radio program.
Back in the early 1920s, many world leaders became inspired by the dreams of Benito Mussolini to recreate the Roman Empire. No exageration. This is before he became the pal of Adolph Hitler and during the days when 'Time' magazine placed him on their cover in admiration shared by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and John Reith who became known as 'Dictator of the British Air'. Of course, once he joined Hitler and began waging war in Europe while Japan waged war in Asia, no one wanted to be reminded of their earlier sentiments.
But there was one man who straddled the threads and caused ripples to emanate in all directions. His name is Guglielmo Marconi. This son of Italy married into Ireland's famous Guiness Brewery family; found his place as the doyen of wireless telegraph communications for Britain's Royal Navy; become a Senator in the Italian Grand Council of Fascism, was appointed head of its anti-Semitic Royal Academy of Scientists, and in 1931, Guglielmo Marconi created Vatican Radio for the new Vatican City State which his boss, Benito Mussolini, had brought into existence on February 11, 1929. This act by Mussolini 'restored' the idea that once again Rome was the home to a corporation sole that was managed by a reigning Pope who ruled both a temporal nation state, albeit with a tiny population, and a spiritual church with miillions of believers straddling the globe.
Benito Mussoli did not see this as the end of his dream, but the beginning of a halucination that he was on his way to recreating the Western half of the Roman Empire based upon a hoax in which the Emperor Constantine had once bequeathed on Pope Sylvestor. This fable is known as the 'Donation of Constantine'. But the irony of this tale is that it has its own roots in England's City of York.
In 1966, a converted Dutch lugger called 'Oceaan 7' became home to 'Radio 270' which broadcast from off the coastline of North Yorkshire. Just over 40 miles away in the City of York, the man who became Emperor Constantine was born. It was his life achievement that Benito Mussolini wanted to emulate in the 1930s, and which Herbert W. Amstrong warned listeners in Yorkshire about in the 1960s. This nightly half-hour intrusion into the pop chart music of today, caused many to tune away from the warning that a revived Roman Empire will destroy both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. It was a strange scenario indeed, because 'Radio 270' was a rip-off of an earlier project called 'Radio Yorkshire (Development) Ltd', that was part of a secret plan to cause the termination of the monopoly held by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The Radio Log shown right, is from the November 1966 edition of 'The Plain Truth' magazine, and it reflects the broadcasting schedule in Europe for 'The World Tomorrow' radio program.
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