Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ultimate fall of Gijón was inevitable as soon as Santander was captured (TIME, Sept. 6). The only reason for keeping Italian forces on the Asturian front was Generalissimo Franco's insistence that "Gijón must fall before winter sets in," so that troops on the Asturian front could be transferred for another mass attack on Madrid...
...many months German and Italian advisers of General Franco have been urging him to appoint a definite Cabinet (or its equivalent) so that they could present Rightist Spain as a formally constituted Government in asking for foreign recognition. El Caudillo has always refused to do this because of the incessant political bickering among his assorted followers, but strengthened by the fall of Gijón, last week a Fascist Grand Council for Rightist Spain was announced. The definite Cabinet duties of each member of the Grand Council had yet to be fixed. Among the five of its dozen members...
...Italy admits to having 40,000 volunteers in Spain, competent neutrals estimate not over 80,000, but on escaping to France last week in a fishing smack, famed Leftist Belarmino Tomás announced with a fine Spanish flourish, "110,000 Italian troops were responsible for Franco's capture of Gijón and northwest Spain...
...Ivan Maisky darkling, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told Britain's newly-met House of Commons: 1) That he believes the "idea" that Italy intends to hold the Balearic Islands after the Spanish war is over to be "unfounded"; 2) That he accepts "as being given in good faith" Italian assurances that Italy has "no territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme of July 14 and immediately make "token withdrawals" of Italians from Spain as evidence of the Tightness of these conclusions, the Prime Minister voiced...
Window-Dressers Benito Mussolini and Neville Chamberlain have been intimately corresponding for months (TIME, Aug. 9). It was clearly no accident that the Italian Premier suddenly agreed last week to a British scheme of July 14 which had seemed as dead as Queen Anne. Spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, on orders from Rome, brought the moribund Non-intervention Committee to life by making this "concession'' to the British last week in concert with the German Delegate, Dr. Ernst Woermann -for Adolf Hitler had also suddenly discovered that he no longer objects to the British scheme of July...