Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great unpopularity of the war among humble people on both sides. Reports, never effectively denied, reached Hendaye of a revival of street fighting in Barcelona and other Leftist towns. Again & again stories came up to Madrid of abortive rebellions in Granada, Motril and Toledo. It was said that Italian troops, held in hearty disdain by Spanish Rightists since their disastrous defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered...
With the thoroughness that has marked all Italian road-building enterprises since the days of Gaius Julius Caesar, Mussolini massed 100,000 Italian workmen, organized them as units of the Fascist Militia to give them dignity in the eyes of Ethiopia's Semitic blackamoors, set them to work digging...
...most important highway planned was to stretch for 800 mi. from Asmara- linked to the Red Sea by a short Italian railroad-through Dessie to Addis Ababa. It was to be wide enough for four lines of traffic, durable enough to withstand big rains, which every summer since the days of Pharaoh have made Ethiopia a 100% impassable sea of mud. A second road 50 mi. long was to link Debarech in the country's deep interior and Gondar, an important town 25 mi. north of vital Lake Tana, which empties its waters into the Blue Nile, feeds British...
...Czechoslovakia's venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori had called together a ten-day international Congress on Education & Peace...
...veteran of international congresses, which she has been attending to expound her theories of child education all over Europe since the turn of the Century, the Dottoressa was welcomed by Danish newspapers as "the greatest living Italian orator." Using no notes, waiting patiently for her interpreters, last week the Dottoressa wanted to talk about children from a new point of view. ''The adult," she declared, "must understand the meaning of the moral defence of humanity, not the armed defence of nations. He must realize that the child will be the creator of the new world peace...