Word: irredentas
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...original case of irredentism, the desire of Italian nationalists to seize lands governed by Austria -- Italia irredenta, or unredeemed Italy -- was a complicating factor in World War I. Nor does the trouble necessarily end when irredentists achieve their goals. Tibet, after centuries under the sway of China, declared complete independence in 1913, only to be invaded by Chinese troops in 1951. Largely as a result, India and China fought a border...
...Africa Irredenta. The maps of Africa, with their artificial and arbitrary boundaries drawn years ago by the European colonialists, may be in for severe revision at the hands of the tribalists. In the Congo itself, leaders of the million-strong Bakongo people dream of doing away with the frontiers that currently split them three ways: one-third in Portuguese Angola, one-third in the French-oriented Congo Republic, and one-third in the Belgian Congo. A united Bakongo nation would control Matadi, the chief sea outlet for much of central Africa's vast hinterland...
...died from a beating. Exiled near Zurich, Ignazio Silone now writes books about his native land which no Duce-fearing Fascist could possibly approve. In Fontamara (1934), in Bread and Wine Exile Silone yearns as bitterly over his redeemed country as all patriotic Italians used to yearn over Italia irredenta. Fascists will not like Bread and Wine. Everyone else will...
...Crown, personated by the head of the House of Savoy. It was natural that the Italian people , carried in their minds the tremendous growth of the nation which has taken place since the King came to the throne. Not only has the World War delivered the Italia Irredenta (portions of the nation in Austrian hands, comprising some 7,000 sq. mi.), but Italy has grown into an African power with some 600,000 sq. mi. of territory. How much the King had to do with this it would be impossible to say, but there is no doubt that the people...
...first place, D'Annunzio is neither by birth nor by race Italian. He is no more Italian than is Trotsky Russian. Yet, unfortunate as it is, he is able to lead a small but solid part of the Italian people in his ultra-imperialistic "irredenta" policy. On the other hand, in view of the support that the Italian people are giving to the high-handed policy of the Allies in the Near-East, this is not so extraordinary...