Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business is being ruined by cancelled orders, and the question comes up of whether the family should accept ruin or sell indirectly to the Italian government. They take the noble stand, when out of the sky drops James Madison Clevenger, the news magnate and former passionate admirer of Sara in her acting days. In spite of his cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either...
...Scheme was rapidly falling to pieces as members of the Non-intervention Committee consulted their home governments and received instructions. The Soviet Government threw a monkey wrench by insisting that all volunteers must have withdrawn from Spain before Moscow will agree to granting belligerent rights to Franco. The Italian Government threw an equally deadly spanner, although loudly blaming Moscow for having already caused the wreck, by declaring that Italy could not promise to be bound by findings of the Committee as to the number of volunteers on each side in Spain and consequently as to the proportion in which they...
Premier Mussolini, far from actually treading harder on Mr. Eden's toes last week, instructed spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi obligingly to ease up at sessions of the London International Committee on Non-Intervention in Spain, and this enabled the British to score a "diplomatic triumph'' for window dressing (see p. 24). Thus all was set for members of His Majesty's Government to come beaming with success to the final meeting of Edward VIII's Parliament last week...
Italy was the only Christian country whose newsorgans all presented this Palestine story of last week as it is seen by the eyes of Islam. Moslems in Italian North Africa, who recently were invited by Il Duce in person to hail him as "The Protector of Islam" and did so (TIME, March 29), last week adopted resolution after resolution of solidarity with Moslems of Palestine. At Addis Ababa, the Italian Viceregal Government's censors passed dispatches announcing that "Leaders of the Moslem community in Ethiopia" have addressed to the League of Nations expressions of "the strongest disapproval...
...Chau-temps have been strongly endorsed by French voters at their local polls (TIME. Oct. 25), the Government set out last week to nip anti-Left revolt which may be budding in North Africa. Many of this colony's landed proprietors, while French in citizenship, are of Spanish. Italian. South American or even German birth. Almost to a man they are more conservative than the Communist. Socialist and moderate Radical Socialist parties which in coalition support the Chautemps Cabinet. Notoriously German are many tough mercenaries of the famed French Foreign Legion. The natives are Mohammedan, excellent fighters, and their...