Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goings-on in Italy backed up the belief that Il Duce would continue to play ball with both sides. While he was speaking in Bologna, it was announced in Rome that Italian garrisons were being withdrawn from the Dodecanese Islands off Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor. A few days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship...
...Italian dispatches described bulletproof metal vests, arm and leg armor and full-faced helmets worn by German soldiers sent out to cut wire...
...British Isles. Less than a dozen ships had been searched at Gibraltar and Haifa, with only minor seizures (3,000 tons of petroleum, 6,000 of manganese ore, 7,650 of bauxite, 9,000 of iron ore, 500 of frozen beef, etc., etc.). Upon ships bound for Italian ports, especially Trieste, with cargoes suspected of ultimate German destination, the ministry was not yet cracking down...
...Italian secret police three weeks ago arrested Professor Guido Gomella, editorial writer for the semi-official Vatican City daily, Osservatore Romano, apparently because he wrote a series of articles impartial toward Britain and France. By last week the Roman circulation of impartial Osservatore Romano had jumped from 40,000 in August...
...maintained no dependable schedule. Passengers were warmly urged to try neutral lines. If they were insistent on a French or British ship, booking clerks politely jotted down preferential boats and sailings, but few hours before departure many a sailing might be suspended for from two weeks to kingdom-come. Italian liners, after hugging home ports since the outbreak of war, took to the sea again on schedule, but avoided such danger ports as Cannes and Gibraltar. Holland-America was still running full tilt, but on the eastbound trip sailed directly to Antwerp and Rotterdam. Swedish American cautiously shifted to more...