Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fulvie De Suvich, Italian ambassador to the United States, while touring the Yard yesterday morning, expressed a great admiration for Harvard men and said that a Harvard degree is respected above that of any other American college in Europe...
...Dictator as he pulled up his car, jumped out. The local Bishop was waiting, for close collaboration of State & Church distinguishes the Mussolini dictatorship from others. A hollow cornerstone of what will be the Church of Pomezia was ready, Il Duce slipped in a parchment and some newly minted Italian coins of 1938, seized the trowel and slapped, spread mortar with the professional touch he has shown in cornerstoning other cities of Littoria (see map), namely Littoria, the capital of the Province, Sabaudia, Pontinia and Aprilia. "Ceremonies such as these require no speeches -for facts are more eloquent than words...
This week the thorough German curiosity of Hitler about Littoria is causing Italians gladly to rehearse in detail the history of 2,500 years and more. Littoria is a stretch of land 15 mi. wide by 50 long lying between the Lepine Mountains, which drains down onto its bogs and the Tyrrhenian Sea. What is now Littoria was, before the days of Ancient Rome, an extremely fertile country whose natives, the Volsci, were adept at maintaining the ditches and drains they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians...
...country such as ours had to be very careful not to get mixed up in international politics through marriage." Confidant Koci's assurance was made with tongue-in-cheek. Zog has long been over his head in international waters. Since 1927 he has been a puppet of Mussolini. Italian non-interest-bearing loans bolster Albanian Government finances, the army is Italian-officered and Italy is Albania's best customer. Thus the wedding had to have the official Mussolini O.K., and Il Duce showed that he strongly approved this latest Italian-Hungarian-Albanian tie-up by having...
BURGOS JUSTICE - Ruiz Vilaplana - Knopf ($2). Revelations of an ex-Com missioner of Justice of Burgos, Spain, who first supported the rebels, turned against them because of atrocities and the dominance of German and Italian influence. Good accounts of day-to-day life behind rebel lines at the beginning of the civil war, weakened by dull speculations, sketchy historical passages...