Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Affrico lies in the district of Emilia, Italy's Reddest region, and most of its 500 people voted Communist at the last election. Don Giorgio is a staunch antiCommunist, but the whole village loved him. Last spring, when the old parish priest died, the people of Affrico allowed themselves, after a suitable interlude of grief, to exult over the prospect that Don Giorgio would now become their priest. But after a competitive examination the Archbishop of Bologna decided otherwise, gave the post to one Don Luciano Massa. Don Giorgio sadly left the village...
...gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace, if he could have taken so hopeful a view of his life." Also dependent on Horace's so-called bounty are his weak-willed, affectionate cousin Mortimer (who is in love with Charlotte), his shadowy aunt Emilia and his five underfed, cheaply clothed children...
...partisans "who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans" [TIME, April 19] is unfair to American and British leaders who early realized the potentialities for future trouble inherent in these Allied-sponsored guerrilla groups. Partisan disarmament was priority business for AMG in North Italy, particularly in Emilia (the eight provinces between the crest of the Apennines and the Po), whose military government I headed. The technique was interesting...
Although we were under no delusions as to the completeness of the job (for example, practically no sidearms were turned in), we did collect a total of 35,000 weapons in Emilia, in about ten such "standdown parades...
...methods are simple. Said a Communist organizer in a village near Milan last week: "Communists freed this village. It wasn't the Socialists or the priests. I am a Communist." They rely on Good Works: last fortnight, a jammed train carried 200 children from starving Naples north to Emilia; there, on Communist farms, under special care of Rita Togliatti's women, they would get four months of sun and food at Communist Party expense...