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Word: abysinnia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Italy as a gay people is no more. Cafes close at ten . . . and when they do stay open later it's because of American trade . . . prices are going up and so are taxes, yet Mussolini wants more babies . . . Italy lost over 20,000 of her finest men at Abysinnia and fighting is still going on. Life is tense here: one gets the impression--especially when you talk with the young people--that this is just an anxious period of waiting before the great conflagration. And they are so stuffed with propaganda they think Italy will one day rule the world...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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