Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Policymakers circled April 18, the date of the Italian elections, on their calendars and watched as Italians prepared to go to the polls. In the U.S. hand were other political cards like the ace on Trieste. The cards were not revealed but they could be: a proposal to admit Italy to the United Nations, even into Western Union; an offer to let Italy sit in on discussions of the economic future of Germany...
...government was planning a spring offensive. The great fear was that "General" Markos Vafiades, the rebel cornmander, would attack first, knocking the government campaign off balance. In Washington, the State Department heard that a ragtag "international brigade" of 30,000 Greeks, French, Italians, Czechoslovaks, Poles, Germans and Spaniards was poised to strike from Albania and Yugoslavia. In Rome, Italian Communists announced formation of a "Greek Liberation Committee" which would send "food, clothing and medicine" to Vafiades...
Next month's Italian election will get what radiomen call an "unprecedented coverage" by U.S. radio. In Manhattan last week, Edward Roscoe Murrow, 39, famed wartime chief of CBS's European Bureau, was packing his bags for the trip. He could have included three bright new prizes*: 1) his first Alfred I. du Pont Award (for "aggressive, independent and meritorious" newsgathering); 2) his second Overseas Press Club Award (for the "best interpretation of foreign affairs by radio"); 3) his third National Headliners' Club medal (for his coverage of the British royal wedding...
...Italian election looked like another...
...scheduled to direct this summer's festival in his native Salzburg. Says crack Vienna Critic Heinrich Kralik: "He is still young and will grow. If he continues his development, he may achieve Toscanini." But, says cocksure Conductor Karajan, who once assisted Toscanini at the Salzburg festival: "Toscanini is Italian and I'm an Austrian. Nothing comes of emulating another conductor...