Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this conclusion: "One can understand why Roosevelt pushes his country toward war. He is a man of catastrophe, he is a man of ill luck, and he wants to bring ill luck to America." To U. S. Ambassador William Phillips this seemed a bit too much. He protested to Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Result: continued front-page anti-U. S. editorials in almost every Italian newspaper...
Generalissimo Franco soon responded to the French hints of possible friendship. The French have long dreaded the idea of having the Italian legionnaires fighting with the Rebels at the French frontier. No less pleasing has been the thought that the Rebels' friends have been constructing fortifications on the French-Spanish frontier. Last week the Generalissimo informed France that Italian troops would not be allowed to operate in the frontier sector, and at the same time withdrew an Italian militia brigade from the Catalonian shambles. He also invited a French military mission to come and see for itself that...
...Italian legionnaires will not leave Spanish territory until it has been completely purged of Red armed forces and of the surrounding corrosive influences of their friends...
...Panamanian response to the Italian press's declaration that Italy's frontier is Panama was a messy "frontier" incident. An Italian admiral commanding two goodwill cruising cruisers and the Italian Minister to Panama motored out of Panama City to make an official call on Panama's President. Caught with their windows down, they were soon so covered with refuse heaved at them by angry bystanders that their call had to be postponed while they drove back to the flagship for a change of uniforms...
...version of the play in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne delighted New York City theatre audiences three years ago. On the stage, Idiot's Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether or not the cinema will be courageous enough to retain the meaning...