Word: anti-italian
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...That speech was not improvised; it was patiently?I repeat, patiently?thought out during two months of ignoble anti-Italian uproar...
...appeared to incline a willing ear, and the public galleries seethed amid a pandemonium of approval, Premier Mussolini spoke with a venomous suppressed fury as follows: "Let pan-Germans remember that Italy is ready, if necessary, to carry her banners beyond her present frontiers but back? never! . . . The German anti-Italian agitation is nefarious and ridiculous. I call it nefarious because it is based upon a tissue of lies which the Germans themselves know to be lies. I call it ridiculous because the Germans have thought to frighten our young proud Fascist Italy, which is not in the habit...
...once anti-Fascist and anti-Italian demonstrations took place in reprisal at Belgrade, Agram, Laiback, Spalato and other Yugoslavian cities. Apparently the Government of Yugo-Slavia made almost frantic efforts to quell these disturbances, which included the burning of Italian flags, attacks on Italian consulates and some scattered plundering of Italian-owned shops. Foreign Minister Nintchitch of Yugo-Slavia promptly despatched a note of apology to the Italian Government, and was reviled as a "traitor" by many of his countrymen for so doing. The incident appeared closed with the alleged arrival at Belgrade of an Italian note in which...
...graduated from the War Academy. At 36 he became a teacher in the War School. After that his rise was rapid. In 1906 he became chief of the Austrian General Staff and a leader of the pre-War military party. He was especially strong in anti-Italian sentiment. Whenever he commanded in the border provinces near Italy he distinguished himself by his severity in dealing with any manifestation of Italian nationalism. According to his own account he urged Emperor Franz Josef to make war on Serbia in 1906, again in 1909, again in 1912, again...