Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Queen Elizabeth had been the Grand Fleet's flagship in World War I. Aboard her, the Germans surrendered their Navy in 1918. During World War II, she almost met an ignominious end. In 1942, as she lay moored in the shallows of Alexandria harbor, Italian "human torpedoes" got in under her, attached time charges, blew great holes in her hull. Patched in the U.S., she finished out the war in the East Indies...
...author of this sardonic invocation was bent, shriveled old Comrade Corradetti, a devout diabolist from Benevento; he was addressing the 26th National Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in Rome's new Cinema Astoria. The "Front" of which he spoke was the new popular front into which the Communists had just invited their Socialist comrades in order to fight the Marshall Plan (TIME...
...over a year, Italian Socialists (except a small, staunch group under Saragat which seceded in January 1947) have slavishly cooperated with the Communists. Now, with its head in the lion's mouth, the Socialist Party would have to decide whether to crawl right down the lion's throat: if it entered the front, its candidates would appear on joint Communist-Socialist ballots in the Italian national elections next April...
Mellaha airfield in Libya, on the north coast of Africa, will soon be reopened as a U.S. base. Government officials reported last week that Britain, which administers the former Italian colony, has temporarily turned the base back...
...Live in Peace. A fine Italian-made film endorsing the Brotherhood of Man (TIME...