Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...substituting rice several times a week for the army ration of macaroni; 2) consumption by the nation will be cut down by forcing the people to eat, instead of their familiar white wheat bread, uniformly baked and priced whole wheat loaves, adulterated with 10% corn flour. This week Italian bakers started hauling the new loaves from their ovens and housewives scornfully labeled it "grey bread." Since the decree, a great propaganda campaign has been staged to convince Italians that the new bread is better for them. Three weeks ago Il Duce's own newsorgan, 77 Popolo d' Italia...
...wheat problem, however, is only one of Premier Mussolini's many headaches. Italian gold reserves, drained by the Ethiopian campaign, have fallen to $212,000,000. Italy's adverse trade balance of $300,000,000 last year was the highest since 1930. This year's is still mounting. Exports have not fallen off materially, but the value of the lira has declined and as a consequence Italy has to pay more for the raw materials, such as coal, oil, which she cannot get at home. On the surface, her industry is prosperous. Heavy industry is making high...
...that she is in the market for foreign credits, the thing Mussolini needs most is a headache powder in the form of a big foreign loan. Most likely place to get it is in London and observers believe that when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sees his cherished Anglo-Italian pact go into effect with the withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain, the British pocketbook will be invitingly opened...
...compared to German Jews they have been lucky. Fascists have always boasted that in Italy there is no Jewish Problem. Jews have enjoyed equal legal rights. They have been writers, bankers, businessmen, even conspicuous Fascists. But for two years there have been unofficial indications that the luck of Italian Jews may be running...
...editorials have been more and more frequent in such Fascist organs as Regime Fascista, II Tevere. When Hitler visited Rome in May hundreds of Jews were temporarily imprisoned. Jews are being frozen out of the theatre, out of literature. Last fortnight booksellers were officially forbidden to display books by Italian Jews, publishers to print translations of books by foreign Jews...