Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some say there are only 3,000 Germans in Spain, while others say 10,000, mostly technicians and aviators," reported Correspondent Callender, "but there are said to be some 40,000 Italian soldiers sandwiched between the Spanish troops." Franco's Spanish soldiers sing a slightly obscene song about Italian fighting capacities, the refrain of which is "Spain is not Abyssinia...
This contempt Reporter Callender illustrated with the anecdote of the Spanish barber who, while shaving an Italian, put the question, "Why did you come here...
...Italian dramatically replied: "I came to capture Santander and Bilbao and to smash Communism...
...triple alliance between Chancellor Adolf Hitler, Premier Mussolini and General Franco is widely advertised and exalted by Rightist propaganda. Portraits of the three dictators appear on postcards. Every hotel this traveler has seen in Rightist Spain displays German. Italian and Rightist flags together," Callender wrote. "Mussolini's face, framed in a tin hat. glowers from the walls. Hitler's visage and book are shown in every town. . . . The Franco press, which uses foreign news selected by the German official news bureau, publishes nothing unfavorable to Hitler and Mussolini...
...throw additional light on the Yague Case. Fortnight ago, top-flight General Juan Yague, a personal friend of Franco and prominent in the recent Rightist march to the sea, was reported imprisoned because he had publicly rebuked the Dictator for indiscriminate bombings and the employment of German and Italian assistance (TIME, May 23). Last week. Callender revealed that General Yague had gone much further. General Yague is a popular Left-wing leader of the Falange Española, the blue-shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument of the State much like Il Duce...