Word: italian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian Consul Marquis di Muro was shot in the nose at the Nice consulate...
...Three Frenchmen crossed the Franco-Italian border. Italian border guards, speaking Italian, stopped them, asked for credentials. The Frenchmen, speaking French, presented them. The guards, leeming their words derogatory to the regime of Signor Benito Mussolini, arrested them; fined two, imprisoned...
...Italian attention was focussed with little pleasure upon French military activities near the Italian border, in the Department of Haute Savoie. Crack infantry and artillery drilled, saluted, climbed mountains. The Berlin press saw a French menace to Italy...
Observers saw in the election a blow to Italian influence in the Balkans, a restoration of French and English prestige. The Jugoslav press, delighted, prophesied peace in the Balkans, hoped for early ratification of the treaty which gives Jugoslavia a free harbor at Saloniki...
...Italian sings like a bird in order to live himself out, he paints because he has to, he writes poetry or commits murder because he cannot help it. Finally he embraces Fascism, dazzled by its deification of heroism, and this principle is the highest by which nations can live...