Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franco's army contains few Spaniards, many hired Moorish cut throats, drafted Italian and German cannon fodder. Lee's army was as native to its soil as the Swanee River...
...think anything will come out of it," was the reaction of Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, to Adolf Hitler's present visit with Mussolini. "It is merely a gesture," he declared...
Evidence of Hitler's surprising of Italian governmental circles by his coup in Austria was demonstrated in the Fascist newsorgans, Dr. Salvemini said, showing that when Chancellor Kurt Schussnig returned from his famous showdown with the German dictator, only to make a strong anti-Anschluss speech, the Italian newspapers printed the Austrian leader's inflammatory words on their front pages and editorially commented favorably on his declarations...
...stay friendly with Britain and France even though he agrees to the Rome-Berlin axis, an apparently contradictory set-up, but only if Il Duce refrains from farther territorial expansion. But, Dr. Salvemini declared, since Hitler has gained enormous prestige by his Austrian adventures, Mussolini must keep the Italian masses contented by more victories, and these, for geographical reasons, must be in the Mediterranean region--in direct conflict with British and French away...
Escorted by President Conant, the ambassador expressed surprise at the size of the Italian collection in Widener, but disapproved of the bronze horse in Fogg. The horse, reputedly from Padua, is trotting in the manner of a giraffe instead of in good horse form. Suvich doubted if any Italian sculptor would have made such an error, and attributed the statue to some imitator...