Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight between Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and the Cominform had settled the Trieste issue: Tito will not get the Italian port, now under international control...
During his Mexican years, Vidali-Contreras had an outspoken enemy in the U.S., goateed Carlo Tresca, a fearless tyranny-hater and an exiled Italian anarcho-socialist. Tresca's Italian-language weekly, Il Martello (The Hammer), publicly accused Vidali-Contreras of many acts of terrorism, and the following specific crimes: 1) the assassination in Barcelona of Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist, during the Spanish civil war; 2) the murder in Mexico of Tiña Modotti, Vidali's Communist mistress...
...Monte Cassino had been a highly effective German army outpost, battered by Allied shells and bombs. Almost as soon as the Germans were driven out, the monks began building again. They heard reports of great collections being taken up in the U.S.,* but to date have received only occasional Italian funds. Meanwhile, the monks live in the undestroyed 10% of their Abbey while they try to rebuild the rest...
...news conference, the President seemed in quiet good humor. "What do you think of Governor Dewey personally?'' blurted a newsman. He liked him personally, Truman replied promptly. What did he think about Dewey's proposal-made to a delegation of Italian-Americans-that Italy's former African colonies be returned to Italian administration under a U.N. trusteeship? Truman's voice was mild but edged. Under the Italian peace treaty, he said, the disposition of these colonies is under consideration by the Big Four powers. If they do not reach an agreement, the problem will...
Died. Charles Prendergast, 79, artist brother of the late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called "incised gesso": etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf...