Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opening move in this campaign was to permit, at long last, Spanish Delegate Julio Alvarez del Vayo to produce his White Book listing documentary evidence of Fascist intervention in Spain. These documents-mostly photostats of papers taken from captured soldiers-were almost completely limited to evidence of Italian intervention. The press summary handed newshawks listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland...
...walker than do the echoes of the Deutschland bombing sound to the Non-Intervention Committee in London. Only to be expected after such an attack is the news of the bombardment of Almeria and of the mobilization of the German fleet and of the British squadron at Gilbraltar. The Italian and German withdrawal from the Spanish Non-Intervention Committee is a far more serious event, however, stopping dead the peace negotiations which in the past fortnight were progressing behind the scenes of the League of Nations...
...their anger and need for vindication of national honor rests in the hands of Hitler and Mussolini, for the Non-Intervention Committee has power only to report, and not to check shipments of guns and soldiers. From the failure of Franco's midwinter campaign until yesterday the German and Italian enthusiasm for the war had cooled to such a degree that Great Britain was hopeful of an armistice. Unfortunately the attacks upon the battleships are just the excuse for which the extremists have been waiting. Considering the state of public opinion in the two countries, the only limits to their...
...weeks, is a man of less spectacular record. Dr. Negrirt, however, did not waste Señor Alvarez del Vayo, appointed him delegate to the League Council from the new Government. In this capacity he is expected to produce formal evidence at Geneva this week of German and Italian intervention in Spain...
...anxious was Commissioner Studebaker to avoid any suggestion of what Russian, German or Italian schoolmen would do with such an opportunity, that he and New Dealer Ickes were ostentatiously vague in their remarks. Commissioner Studebaker warned his small hearers that "democracy must be preserved from every attack." Secretary Ickes declared that they were "entering a world in which we must engage in great enterprises. We must harness Nature, plant forests, and generate power for the use of millions...