Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know better than interfere in a family quarrel. Italy's present imports of oil are around 2,000,000 tons a year. This does not include imports for naval and military use (estimated at another 1,000,000 tons) which do not pass through the customs. The Italian oil company which has the exploitation of Albania's oil resources produced 120,-ooo tons last year, and hopes (perhaps over-sanguinely) to produce 300,000 tons...
...cheered loudly when Friend Benito Mussolini corrected the "pyramidal errors of geography." II Duce has applauded as the Führer grabbed Lebensraum ("living space") for himself. The two even joined hands for a while in Spain. But while committed to give moral aid to each other, no German-Italian understanding to give military help was ever put down in black & white. In fact, rainbow-chasing French and British politicians believed that Italy would balk before it came to that...
Last week Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at Milan. Foreign correspondents guessed that Italy was balking at helping, even morally, her ally Germany against her old tried-&-true friend Poland, and that the German Foreign Minister's trip (plus trips by German military men) was simply an attempt to again smooth out ruffled relations. Even the Italian press, which unanimously described the enthusiastic crowds which greeted Herr von Ribbentrop at Milan, editorially predicted that the conference would produce "no sensation...
Thus the Axis answered the recent bold moves of Britain and France in Eastern Europe. Following events which took place early last week, it pointed to the possibility of another big German-Italian diplomatic and military victory...
Joyce is constantly jotting down overheard phrases, is especially interested in dialects, Midwestern American, British colonial, newspaper jargon. He speaks Italian as smoothly as English, flawless French, fluent German, knows some dozen other tongues, including outlandish Lapp. At present Joyce is not writing. His wife is trying to get him started on something, because when he is not working he is hard to live with...