Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's oration was the grand finale to Italy's summer war games in Sicily, was evidently intended to be a curtain raiser for new developments in Italian foreign policy. Throughout the Fascist Empire 43,000,000 Italians, obedient to orders of the Fascist Grand Council, stopped work, streamed into public squares to hear broadcast their master's voice. A squad of interpreters scribbled furiously to translate the speech into 18 languages for the benefit of the world at large...
Germany. "It is necessary from now on to take into account the existence of the Rome-Berlin axis. Between the two regimes there is a lasting solidarity. You understand me when I say that it is a lasting solidarity sealed by blood." (A reminder that German and Italian troops had died in Spain...
...Italian East Africa. "It has been said that Italy seeks recognition of her Empire by the League of Nations. Not at all. We do not ask the registrar of births and deaths in Geneva to register the birth of the Italian Empire. But we do say the time has come to register a demise." (An intimation that he would be satisfied if Geneva would kick Haile Selassie's representatives from the League...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco moved into the spotlight on the Spanish civil war stage last week, took personal command of the drive on Santander, last important Loyalist stronghold on the Biscay coast. Anxious to bolster his prestige, chubby Franco stood behind his lines, watching as his Rightists, Moors, Italian "volunteers" rolled down the sloping hills toward Santander...
Playing opposite Leading-Man Franco were the Italian Generals Sandro Piazzoni, Attilio Teruzzi, former commander of Il Duce's Fascist Militia, eager to avenge the Italian rout at Guadalajara (TIME, March 22 et seq.), the ignominious chasing by Basque fishwives during the Bilbao siege (TIME, June 28). A horse laugh went through Leftist lines outside Santander when they read a purported order issued by General Piazzoni to Le Frecce Nere (Black Arrows): "As the Black Arrows were the first to reach Bilbao, so they will be the first to enter Santander. With proud heart and bayonets raised, be ready...