Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, although Italy has recently scorned rumors that she is in the market for foreign credits, the thing Mussolini needs most is a headache powder in the form of a big foreign loan. Most likely place to get it is in London and observers believe that when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sees his cherished Anglo-Italian pact go into effect with the withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain, the British pocketbook will be invitingly opened...
...Fascist organs as Regime Fascista, II Tevere. When Hitler visited Rome in May hundreds of Jews were temporarily imprisoned. Jews are being frozen out of the theatre, out of literature. Last fortnight booksellers were officially forbidden to display books by Italian Jews, publishers to print translations of books by foreign Jews...
...swelling anti-Semitism in Italy are obvious: 1) the firming friendship with Nazi Germany; 2) the suspicion in the mind of Sig. Mussolini that rich Jews have been skimping recently on their contributions to the Empire; 3) Sig. Mussolini's opposition to Freemasonry. Bolshevism, speculation in foreign exchange, in all three of which he suspects Jews of being active; 4) his fear that a Jewish national home in Palestine (see p. 18) would make the Mediterranean less Roman. He would like to solve the Zionist question by transferring the Zionists from Palestine to Ethiopia. Then the Arabs in Palestine...
Last week Joe Palooka, dumb but lovable comic-strip prize fighter, was wandering across the sands of an African desert to an uncertain fate. In a moment of despair he had joined the French Foreign Legion. Now he thinks he is being sought by the Legion as a deserter. Little does he know what his followers in almost 500 newspapers know: that fortnight ago the President of France pardoned him after receiving a request from President Roosevelt...
...being a Civil Aeronautics Authority independent of all other branches of the Government except the White House itself, headed by a business man, peopled with non-political experts, and charged with "encouragement and development of an air-transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the U. S.. of the defense." Postal Service, Regulations and were of to the be framed national "in such a manner as to assure the highest degree of safety . . . foster sound economic conditions . . . without unjust discriminations, undue preferences ... or unfair or destructive competitive practices...