Word: grecos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deed. A heavily wooded and lonely stretch of road in Greece. An automobile is approaching Santa Quaranta from Janina. In the car, Italian members of the International Commission for Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian frontier - General Tellini, Major Scorti, Lieutenant Conati, their interpreter and their chauffeur. The car is halted by a barricade of fallen trees. Shots ring out from the woods on either side of the road. . . . The five Italians are found dead. . . . The Greek Government expressed its profound regret to Italy. . . . The Ultimatum. The news of the murder was received throughout Italy with violent indignation. Demonstrations against Greece...
...account of the admittance of Signer Greco, ally of Giolitti, into the ranks of the Fascista Party, Captain Padovani and some of his supporters sent in their resignations to Mussolini?but he was too subtle to accept them. Instead, Benito convened a meeting of the Fascista Executive Council which unanimously decided to expel from the party Padovani and such Fascisti as remained faithful to him. The decision is said to affect 40,000 members...
...northern organizations in effecting the coalition. Captain Padovani himself said: " It is absolutely untrue that either myself or other Fascisti in this (Naples) district are disaffected with the Government. My admiration for Premier Mussolini and my devotion to the Fascista movement are unchanged and untouched by personal differences about Greco, which have arisen because he is imbued with the old ideas and ideals. . . . I and my brother Fascisti . . . are against all political or financial interest that does not support Mussolini and Fascism. I refuse to work with those who betrayed every noble, healthy initative and from whom this district formerly...
There is more than meets the eye in the prolongation of the Little Entente's life. The three countries between them command a standing army of more than half a million men. While the Greco-Turkish impasse at Lausanne lasts, Yugo-Slavia is keeping an army on the Greek frontier. If hostilities should commence, the other two members of the Little Entente might be dragged into another Balkan War. It is vain to point out that this is a result of the Balkanization of Central Europe...
...Lausun, a large and fine building on the He St. Louis, in the Seine. The purchase will be arranged by the National Academy of Design. In the opinion of Edwin M. Blashfield, President of the Academy, this marks the "coming of age of American art." A painting by "El Greco," 15th century Spanish painter, brought the largest price, $9,000, at the auction of the Marius de Zayas collection in New York; not a large price, considering what is often paid for contemporary work...