Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking elsewhere throughout the world, Comrade Molotov called President Roosevelt's recent note to Adolf Hitler asking for a ten-year peace a "proposal permeated with a peace-loving spirit." The recently signed German-Italian treaty he called an "offensive alliance." He warned Japan to stop "provocative violations of the frontiers of the U. S. S. R. and the Mongolian People's Republic" in the Far East. As for China, Russia would always support "nations which have become victims of aggression and are fighting for the independence of their countries...
...several times, and the command changed not only when numbers varied but when one side introduced a superior new plane which could outfight the opposing machines. Something of the same sort was seen recently in Spain where German Messerschmitts 109 could outfly Russian Moscas, Russian Chatos could out-maneuver Italian Fiats. In general, Germany is known to have some of the best fighting ships in Europe. Britain is perhaps runner up in airplane quality; Russia, although she has many ships, is somewhere down near the tail of the procession...
Italy. Like Mussolini, Italian soldiers are pouter pigeons, wear caps eight inches tall to make up for their short stature. But in the hard school of war they have learned to fight as well as strut. For the modern Italian army (900,000 men) is the only important European military machine with recent war experience. So its junior officers are apt to know more about fighting than junior officers of other nations...
...Italian Alpine troops are among the best mountain troops in the world. Italians are good at engineering, transportation, supply, sanitation. Italian planes are good, their pilots well trained in Ethiopia and Spain, but production is handicapped at all times because of lack of raw materials. On sea, Italy has cruisers (21 in commission, twelve abuilding) that are among the fastest in the world, a big destroyer and submarine fleet, plus mosquito-boats manned by daredevils, all of which makes Italy an ugly foe to fight in the western Mediterranean. Hero of the Italian navy is Rizzo, motorboat commander who sank...
...above report is an invention. But so was the report published by Paris newspapers that four Italian soldiers of the 27th Infantry Regiment had presented themselves to the French military authorities . . . saying that they had not had enough to eat in Italy...