Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following their successful Nyon piracy conference of seven weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 20 et seq.), France and Britain moved last week to do something serious about the more important question of Italian volunteers in Spain. These, estimated by French military observers to number between 65.000 and 80,000 men, were last week admitted for the first time in the Italian press to number 40,000. Pouted the Italian Foreign Office's news agency, the Informazione Diplomatica: "Absolutely fantastic figures have been given and continue to be given with the evident purpose of creating a war psychosis. It is scandalous...
Wise heads both in London and Paris know that many Italian officers and upper-class soldiers can be and have been withdrawn from Spain. Most of them are replaced after three or four months' service, but the dumb thousands lurching in motor trucks and tramping muddy roads in Spain last week "know too much," are too discontented and are political dynamite too explosive to be brought back to Italy at this time...
...Triumvirate. In Japan, Germany and Italy prompt and angry reactions to the Chicago speech suggested that the President had gone a long way toward stinging these mutually friendly Fascist powers into a hard triumvirate. Probably prematurely, Japan's news agency Domei announced that at a call by the Italian Ambassador upon Japan's Foreign Office assurances were given of "Italy's sympathy and support in Japan's 'self-defense' campaign in China...
...Scarborough, and Premier Mussolini followed it by sending to London and Paris a note in which he stated that Berlin would have to be invited to make a fourth at the parley on Spanish affairs which Britain and France had sought to have composed of only themselves and Italy. Italian and German editors suppressed or delayed printing the Chicago speech until they could bracket it with news of the enthusiasm of Madrid and Moscow and of how the U. S. State Department has licensed Soviet war purchases of over...
...graduation in 1917 he was off again, this time to Kansas City, where as a cub on the Star he nosed the beaten track of hospital, morgue and jail. War was in all minds, however, and a few months later he joined an ambulance unit bound for the Italian front. There he transferred to the Italian infantry; soon after, in a trench-mortar explosion, got a wound that retired him from active service. Of his War experiences, Author Hemingway speaks modestly, says usually, "I spent most of the time in hospitals." He carried this attitude so far that when...