Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iraqi proposal was only one of a number under consideration. Meanwhile, a British commission sent to the Holy Land to report on the workability of partition was laboriously drafting its conclusions, expected to reveal them in three weeks. In Rome, British Ambassador Lord Perth conferred with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano on several topics, one of which was reported to have been the possibility of diverting further Jewish emigration from Europe to Ethiopia, rather than Palestine...
When 58-year-old Sir Miles and his second wife, beauteous, Italian-blooded, 25-year-old Lady Lampson recently found their summer villa infested with hooded cobras the ambassador determined to remove them his own way. But the native servants refused to go near the reptiles and Sir Miles's British tactics failed to chase the snakes off. Last week he admitted defeat, sent out a call for the neighborhood snake charmer...
After that the Dictator, who has silently digested the views of Fascist best minds, gets up and makes a declaration, telling his Grand Council and every Italian what is going to be what. Last week this process took five hours. When the locked doors of the Grand Council finally opened at 2:30 a. m., it was to disclose new and still more selective decrees in Italian Fascism's already highly selective policy of antiSemitism. There shall be no discrimination, decreed the Grand Council, against Italian Jews of the following seven categories...
...would thus entitle her and his children to exemption under the new decree. Similarly, since the Fascist Party was founded as an organization of World War veterans, nearly every Jewish "old comrade" of the Dictator is now exempt from antiSemitism, as are several high Jewish officers in the Italian fighting forces, together with every Italian Jew who was sufficiently pro-Fascist to join the Party as late as two years after the March on Rome, or to volunteer right up to a few days ago to fight in Spain...
...selective principle is a novelty in Mussolini antiSemitism, but the Fascist Grand Council went on to issue decrees revealing something different, namely that 11 Duce-quite apart from Jewish questions-wishes to fire Italians with the concept of the "Italian race." Reason: He believes Italians can never be successful Empire builders unless they feel as superior as the most superior Briton feels...