Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face, the Cominform Manifesto looked like a mistake. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault called it "just one more blunder." Millions of French and Italian voters had been deluded into believing that Communist national parties in their countries were not subject to outside orders. What did the Communists gain by advertising, at this point, the fact that their national parties were not independent? That was the mystery...
...three motions of no-confidence in the Government were introduced. De Gasperi got by with margins of 93, 47 and 34 votes successively. The Government was strengthened by a dramatic message from Washington that the U.S. had given up its share of Italian warships, awarded to the U.S. under the peace treaty. The Communists, seeing that De Gasperi was safe for the time being, withdrew their own no-confidence motion. The left's obvious strategy: to pin Italy's economic troubles on the Government as an excuse for further strikes and strife. Cried Nenni to De Gasperi...
...first issue of the guide will catalogue events ranging from an exhibit of Italian and Dutch masters at the Gardner Museum to Holy Cross game dances from a lecture by Australia's U.N. delegate Herbert Evatt to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in "Dark Passage...
...Hungary" published a long account of the project, and paid tribute to lectures delivered by Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bois Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, and professors Francis O. Matthiessen, Wassily W. Leontieff, and Benjamin F. Wright...
Copies of a prospectus of the series have been mimeographed and distributed to House members, together with the text of the "Divine Comedy" recommended. No knowledge of Italian is required...