Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breath of Determination. Two old rivals had set a shining example for the 16 nations. For five months a French-Italian commission had talked over possibilities of gearing the French and Italian economies together as an efficient machine. Last week some details leaked out; they indicated far more progress than observers had expected...
...months ago, official U.S. observers had been confident that the combination of Communists and left-wing Socialists would be beaten. Last week they were far less confident. The sentiments of the Italian voters had not changed much; but the U.S. observers had found out more about those sentiments...
Would the weather be warm or icy after the Italian elections April 18 (see FOREIGN NEWS)? The New York Times's roving columnist-correspondent made no predictions. But, she wrote urgently, "everyone in the arena knows that the battle is as much against America as against Italy and can be lost unless the danger [of a Communist coup] is understood in Washington as well as in Rome...
...blue-eyed Anne McCormick had trotted around five nations, talking with the men in the chancelleries and the man in the street. She had scored no Page One beats and hunted no headlines; her job was to help Times readers understand the headlines. She had sat down with Italian Premier de Gasperi, found that he "has grown notably in office . . . the moderator has turned into a resourceful fighter." Astutely she had backgrounded the abortive Foreign Ministers' Conference. ("This . . . will go down in history as the last gesture of the victors to the pretense of a community of aims that...
...stone that begins rolling this moment here in Milan; it will go through the Italian cities, villages and regions, then to the outside world and to the end of time. . . . There will be angels in Heaven for all eternity because of this moment. . . . For five centuries men have tried to make the world fit for heroes. The result is that angry individualism and angry collectivism stand growling at each other. ... A generation of dwarfs is looking to the atom bomb and V-bombs that may destroy all humanity...