Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome, meantime, British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, having sped back from a visit to his dentist in Vienna, called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at the Palazzo Chigi, remained closeted for more than an hour...
...While Italian newshawks were filing back to London, Werner von Crome, chief London correspondent for the Berliner Lokalanzeiger, his assistant, Franz Otto Wrede, and Wolf Dietrich Langen, a German newsagency correspondent, were preparing to go back to Germany. They had been informed by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare that their permits to remain in Britain would not be renewed. Declared Correspondent von Crome: "There was no reason given. . . . I deny that the action was taken as a result of complaints of espionage." These three were believed to be the first German newshawks ever expelled from Britain in peacetime. This week...
Quickly correspondents in Loyalist Spain translated this as an admission that the potent Rightist assault against Madrid of fortnight ago had broken down. For many weeks they have been aware that the Italian and German advisers of Generalissimo Franco, gathering daily in the heavily guarded headquarters directly opposite the west door of Salamanca Cathedral, have advocated two different plans of campaign for the remainder of the summer. Basically the German scheme was to immunize every front but Madrid, try to lure the Leftists into one more half baked offensive, always fruitful of casualties, and then mass every available man from...
Basis of the Italian plan was to do something quickly to restore Italy's battered military prestige. Santander, once the favorite yachting centre of the Basque Riviera, is less protected by mountains than is Bilbao. There are not more than 5,000 exhausted Basque militiamen to guard it, and though Valencia has been able to sneak a few planes through to Santander in recent weeks, a service it could not perform for Bilbao, the overwhelmingly superior Rightist forces on the Basque front ought to be able to capture Santander in less than a week, any time the order...
...half-successful Leftist offensive of last month (TIME, July 19, et seq.) shelved the Italian scheme for weeks. By any scheme of tactics a counteroffensive was immediately necessary and it was undertaken with continuing but vague reports of Rightist successes. Then last week came that serpent of troops and trucks from Burgos and Vitoria. It meant that the Rightist offensive at Madrid had been checked too, and the Italian plan was getting another inning...