Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immutable privilege of dictators, within their borders, is that of changing past and current history to suit themselves. Last week in Rome, Fascist Italy celebrated an "Italo-Spanish solidarity day" to whip up enthusiasm for the Spanish Rightist cause. Presence of Italian "volunteers'" with scarred faces, empty sleeves, lost legs, lucidly illustrated Italy's participation in the war. Representing Generalissimo Franco was one-eyed, one-armed General Jose Millan Astray, founder 3 of Spain's Foreign Legion...
...Total Italian casualties in Spain were modestly placed by the Fascist press at 2,023 killed, 6,996 wounded, 359 captured by Leftists. More indicative of Dictator Mussolini's power was his new interpretation of what happened in the famed Guadalajara battle of March 1937, between Italians and Spanish Leftists. Described by U. S. and British newshawks on the scene as a panicky rout for the Italians, it now appears in Italy's press as one of the country's five "great victories" of the Spanish Civil...
Crown Prince Umberto obliged Dictator Benito Mussolini last week with a few personal appearances in the Italian Tyrol. Arriving at flag-bedecked. half-Austrian Bolzano (formerly Bozen), guarded by soldiers and Black Shirts, His Royal Highness inaugurated a public works program. He then visited Merano where he dedicated a monument to Italian Alpine troops. Meanwhile, his Belgian consort, Crown Princess Maria Jose, inspected welfare centres...
...hard-boiled Legionnaires of the Tercio de Extranjeros (Spanish Foreign Legion). The Legionnaires, all Spaniards but part of the Rightists' Moroccan army corps, are Franco's shock troops and thus frequently bang up against the U. S. and foreign fighters, shock troops for the Barcelona Government. The Italians, more lenient with their captives, were reported to have insisted on a Rightist guarantee that U. S. and other International Brigade prisoners taken by the Italian legions on the recent Aragon march to the sea be convicted before a military tribunal before being shot...
Because of the limited and inadequate nature of the literature courses in Spanish and Italian, and because literature is the most important part of preparation for the Divisionals, a great deal of tutorial must be done in these fields. All the instructors in these two languages serve as tutors and are competent in that capacity