Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull was reported by the Baltimore Evening Sun last week considering resigning because of the President's approval of the Anglo-Italian Pact. Mr. Hull failed to resign, hotly denied he planned to. More plausible was a report that Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper had written the President to say he would resign if his Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce was transferred to the State Department as State's Under Secretary Sumner Welles had suggested. Said Secretary Steve Early for the White House: "You can make a categorical denial that Secretary Roper...
...illegally in 1926, promptly devoted himself so wholeheartedly to drunkenness, disorderly conduct and burglary that he served three terms in jail. Last January, the Department of Labor decided to deport Mohamet Koko di Korese. Since the Ethiopian Government no longer exists, it was necessary to apply to the Italian Consulate for his travel documents, thus, in effect, recognizing Italian sovereignty over Ethiopia. Last week, two Ellis Island guards tucked Mohamet Koko di Korese in a third class cabin on the Rex, booked, via Italy, to Addis Ababa...
...Italian peasants had finally increased their wheat yield in 15 years from an average of under ten quintals (36.7 bu.) per hectare (2.47 acres) to somewhat over 16. Thus, without much increasing Italy's total wheat acreage, which was impossible, total yearly production was increased from 45 million quintals to 80 million. Since the Italian people continue to eat about 75 million quintals, this meant that Premier Mussolini had won the "battle of the grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), made Italy-self-sufficient in wheat for the first time in modern history...
Osservatore Romano, semi-official news-organ of Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers. In sum, these gems of Nazi thought extolled the Nordic races over the Mediterranean, and Osservatore Romano even found a Nazi press crack that Italians ought to have no difficulty colonizing in Africa "because the difference between them and Africans is not very great...