Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted, when Generalissimo Franco's German-planned counterattack on Madrid failed month ago (TIME, Aug. 16), Italian staff officers were given their innings, permitted an attempt to re-establish Italian military prestige with a mass attack on the onetime summer resort of Santander. key point of the shrunken and crumbling Basque front. As predicted, the Rightist columns found ineffective resistance among the 25,000 Basques and Asturian miners defending Santander and last week Santander fell. As predicted, Italy threw aside the last vestige of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. The three Italian divisions-Black Arrow, Black Flame, 20th...
...these parties and factions are supposed to be represented in Caudillo Franco's 20-man Junta, loosely modeled on the Italian Fascist Grand Council and decreed last April. But the Junta has never sat. The group which actually runs the highly simplified government of Rightist Spain is no larger than the very elementary requirements of a military dictatorship. Francisco Franco, one of the few Spaniards on the peninsula who does not take two hours off for lunch, does most of his own work. He has no formal cabinet, but is helped by a handful of more or less obscure...
...connections with Portugal, a useful back door for German advisers who wish to avoid passing through France. Into this city whose normal population is less than 25,000, over 50,000 people have been crowded. In its one modern hostelry, the flag bedecked Grand Hotel,* none but German and Italian staff officers and the most potent politicos may dream of finding a room. Humble war correspondents and civilians with urgent business at headquarters are lucky to find a cot in a shoe-store...
...silence, but plenty of listeners. Here are four large sidewalk cafes with back-room restaurants, all equally greasy and flyspecked. Fashion has chosen just one, the Cafe Novelti, to be the official saloon of Rightist Spain. Here daily gather whatever foreign correspondents are in town, staff officers, German and Italian aviators (always at separate tables), secret agents and such wounded soldiers as are in funds (see p. 21). Probably no one spot in all Rightist Spain contains as much actual news and incredible gossip as the terrace tables and back dining room of the Novelti...
First of the Italian trio was a trimotored Savoia-Marchetti piloted by Lieut.-Commander Samuele Cupini and Captain Amedeo Paradisi, who covered the 3,800 miles in 17½ hours at an average of 219 m.p.h. Co-pilot of the third Italian ship, only half-hour behind, was none other than Lieutenant Bruno Mussolini, thickset second son of Il Duce. On his account, the crowds at Le Bourget had all been carefully frisked by police before admission. With scrupulous politeness and notable lack of enthusiasm, they applauded as each plane landed. That night the Paris press gave Pierre...