Word: del
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barcelona, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo called in French Ambassador Eirik Labonne, warned him that if the French and British continued to do nothing to stop Rightist bombing of Leftist cities Leftist Spain would start a system of reprisals. Employing the usual vague diplomatic language, canny Foreign Minister Alvarez dropped a hint that Leftist warplanes would bomb "places from which the raiders come," might concentrate on "distant objectives...
...return, then herded them into trains for the border. Only 980 voted to go to Rightist Spain; the remaining 8,820 elected to return to Leftist territory. Arriving at Gerona, the first contingent of the "Lost Division" received a rousing greeting from Spanish Leftists led by Foreign Minister Alvarez del Vayo...
...Revisiting my native land after an absence of 40 years," see Rome fiddle while Italy burns at both ends-in Africa and at home. A six-month drought compels the peasants to mow down their stunted winter wheat and feed to the starving livestock. The Battaglia del Grano, the Wheat Battle, of 1938 is lost. Three-fourths of Italy's bread requirements will have to be bought abroad with "old, the gold wrung from meagre exports and the tourist trade, the gold earmarked for coal, oil, steel, copper, nickel, tin -for a thousand commodities Italy lacks and must have...
...goal of a desperate seven-week campaign was almost reached last week by Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Army of Moors, Italians and Spaniards on the eastern front. Converging from a concave line in three directions, columns of Rightist troops pierced beyond the heavy fortifications of Albocacer, surrounded Lucena del Cid, were within easy gunshot at week's end of the ruined port of Castellon de la Plana (Big Castle of the Plain). In the north was reported the slow retreat toward France of the Leftist "Lost Division"of 10,000 militiamen, 3,000 peasants, trapped for eleven weeks...
...Fascist State set about overcoming this shameful symphonic weakness. Officially smiled upon was a group of contemporary Italian orchestral composers, headed by the late Ottorino Respighi (Pini di Roma), lean-faced Ildebrando Pizzetti (Rondo Veneziano), gloomy, Venetian-born Gian Francesco Malipiero (Pause del Silenzio) and dapper, energetic Alfredo Casella (La Giara). Dominant influence on these composers was that of French Impressionists Debussy and Ravel, though Casella and Malipiero occasionally toddled in Stravinsky's footsteps...