Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese losses at 51 planes, said only two of the Mikado's raiding craft had failed to return. Although U. S. newsmen raised eyebrows over both sides' claims, one fact they accepted as obvious: the long inactive Chinese air force, once destroyed, once reorganized, composed of Russian, Italian, French, German, American, British and Chinese aircraft and men, had again been revitalized. That the Japanese might have difficulty maintaining their aerial superiority was indicated by the arrival via British-controlled Hong Kong of huge airplane shipments from western Europe, of other flying fortresses from Soviet Russia via Soviet-controlled...
Nothing which ex-Soldier Adolf Hitler is being shown in Italy this week by ex- Soldier Benito Mussolini outranks in social significance the Province of Littoria, reclaimed since 1931 from the noxious swamplands of the Pontine Marshes by Italian ex-soldiers for themselves and their families. One morning last week, before the Germans should arrive in their pomp (see p. 16), Il Duce slipped behind the wheel of his little sports car, whizzed out of Rome to do at Pomezia (see map) a bit of informal work as a stonemason- which used to be his trade...
...Sumner Welles, who last summer met and greatly admired England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week, according to the most reliable reports, Mr. Chamberlain strongly urged his new friend, in the absence of canny Secretary Hull, to persuade Mr. Roosevelt to issue a statement approving the Anglo-Italian pact. In any case Mr. Roosevelt, who last fall at Chicago proposed a "quarantine for aggressor nations," felt obliged to tell a press conference: 1) that he had neither approved nor disapproved the Scott Resolution, and 2) that the U. S. "approved" the Anglo-Italian agreement as a "proof...
...foreign correspondents. Displayed for the first time in public, however, were nine heavy tanks of new design, from 18 to 25 tons in weight, varying widely in traction and armament. Still lighter than the 50-ton tanks used by Russians and French in Leftist Spain, heavier than the Italian and German affairs of about ten tons used in Rightist Spain, these new experimental tanks were apparently designed to meet the military criticism that at present Germany's tanks are either too light to be good fighters or too heavy for great mobility...
...Savarona is one of the three largest, most elegantly appointed yachts in the world. She is exceeded in length only by the British royal yacht Victoria and Albert and the Italian royal yacht Savoia, in tonnage by only the Victoria and Albert. Designed like a fast transatlantic passenger ship, carrying a crew of 83, she was built at a cost of $2,000,000 in the Blohm & Voss shipyards of Hamburg...