Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only has their autonomous Catalan Government been practically swallowed by the Valencia regime, which fortnight ago moved its Spanish Leftist Government in on them at Barcelona, but that after 18 months of playing at war, they are about to be subjected to the fiercest offensive El Caudillo Franco, his Italian, Moorish and German allies can muster. United Press Correspondent Irving Pflaum, visiting the Aragon front last week, got this amazing dispatch past Catalan censors...
...document signed by Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, by Japanese Ambassador Masaaki Hotta and by German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week declares that "Italy will be considered an original signatory of the pact" between Japan and Germany, although it was signed last year, and that Italy's signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
Tokyo papers predicted "Poland will sign next," and a parade of Japanese citizens carrying paper lanterns past the Foreign Office in Tokyo was said to express their "joy." Italian papers lyricized about Japan, but only in Germany was anything drastic- and concrete done against the Comintern last week. In Berlin the necks of three convicted agents of the Comintern were severed by the guillotine which has now replaced the Nazi headman...
...night after the anti-Comintern Pact was signed Italian, German and Japanese officials went to a splendiferous champagne and caviar banquet at the Soviet Embassy in Rome, and to this merry celebration of Bolshevism's 20th Birthday (see p. 22) Ambassador Hotta lent color by attending in brilliant Japanese native dress...
...faced, kinky-haired son of Haile Selassie, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, wrote to Patriarch Amba Yoannes XIX of the Coptic Church, in Cairo, petitioning this venerable prelate for a divorce from Princess Holata-Israel, daughter of his father's most powerful chieftain, Ras Seyoum, who capitulated to the Italian invaders during their campaign...