Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mutton Stew. On their side, the Russians had an excellent propaganda opportunity in the issue of the Italian colonies in Africa-Libya, Eritrea, Somaliland. The 1947 peace treaty with Italy provided that unless the Big Four reached agreement by Sept. 15, 1948, the matter would be turned over to the U.N. Assembly. Some weeks ago Moscow startled the Western powers with a proposal to have one last fling at the colonies before the deadline. U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall agreed to negotiate but refused to attend in person. So last week in Paris the Big Four held a three...
...three days the conference went through the motions, disagreed and turned the problem over to the U.N. Assembly. Russia is willing to turn the colonies over to Italian trusteeship with or without U.N. supervision. So is the U.S., but it is hamstrung by a British promise to the Senusi tribes who inhabit part of Libya. In return for Senusi help during the war in the desert the British pledged that the Senusi would never again have to live under Italian rule. The U.S., undecided on whether to please the Italians or the British and Arabs, hopes the Assembly will decide...
...France and most other OEEC countries (notably excepting Italy and Greece), the end of the "dole" phase was in sight and the productive phase had begun in earnest. Western Germany was smiling and flexing its muscles as a result of strengthened currency and tempting food to buy with it-Italian tomatoes, Mexican canned beef, Portuguese beans, U.S. lard. Production was up 20% in the last two months; Ruhr iron & steel set postwar records. In Frankfurt, a mechanic named Johann Schaeffer broke his three-year habit of saying "schreck-lich" (frightful) when anyone asked him how things were going. Last week...
Cited for its "high lyrical worth," the new picture split honors with two other films* this month at the ninth Italian international film competition. With 46 features from 13 nations entered in the scramble for prizes, Louisiana Story won over such box-office boomers as Duel in the Sun, Gentleman's Agreement and The Big Clock. The Manchester Guardian wrote of the new Flaherty documentary: "The actions of these people, as Virginia Woolf once wrote of Homeric characters, 'seem laden with beauty because they do not know that they are beautiful...
...girl who passes the finals will receive, over the air, a free course in English from Italian-born Actress Elissa Landi (who is also a novelist). For the past three years Miss Landi has been teaching radio & television students at the College of the City of New York how to tidy up their bad accents...