Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army headquarters in Rome announced that pregnancy was no longer a reason for marriage. Reasons: 1) too many "undesirable" Italian girls were using it as a means of getting to the altar with a G.I., and thus to the U.S., 2) too many occupation troops were too young to recognize a scheming woman...
...lusty, loudmouthed darling of Britain's music halls, 49-year-old Gracie Fields, was a near casualty of the war. When Gracie and her Italian husband, Monty Banks (Mario Bianco), quit England one jump ahead of the Luftwaffe in 1940, the British press and public hooted bitterly. It was only to save Monty, an enemy alien, from pokey, Gracie explained from...
...three main roads to Rome last week two Italian Army trucks rolled south. They had come from Munich, with $10 million worth of art under their tarpaulins. At the Ducal Palace in the mountain city of Bolzano, the trucks halted and weary armed guards began unloading the crates. They would be safe there until a show to celebrate their return could be arranged at Rome...
...would have to do a great deal more before it could contain the triumphal march of Italian Communism. The U.S. would also have to learn more about the nature of its Communist antagonists, who in Italy used different methods from the frank totalitarianism of their eastern European comrades. The success of the methods is reflected in a dispatch from TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes, after a trip through northern Italy, whose glorious cities have become the Communists' fiercest strongholds. His report...
...Very Difficult Point. In Florence, as elsewhere in Italy, the Communist Party has had such an unnaturally rapid growth that many of its members are still not firmly-disciplined. On three issues (Trieste, Vatican relations and the Marshall approach) the Italian party has deviated from the Moscow line. If it came to power, the Italian party could probably keep most of these free-thinking Communists in check, but their existence is significant. Here is a typical conversation with one of them...