Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Premier Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval signed a treaty ceding to Italy not only a piece of desert south of Libya but a strip between French Somaliland and Italian Eritrea which would have given Italy a position on the Gulf of Aden, the island of Dumeria in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and a share in the French-owned Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad...
...occasion to renounce publicly his end of the pact, hoping that a new African settlement, based on the Wartime promises, can be wrung from France and Britain. He wants most the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line of which all but the easternmost 50 miles runs through what is now Italian territory, on which practically all the traffic is Italian. The only way the colony can get to the sea without using the line is by way of the new but much longer highway from Addis Ababa to Assawa (not to be confused with the dead-end military road from Assab...
Hitler-"Never. You speak of your passionate love for peace. . . . Then suddenly you stiffen, you tighten your fists, you stick out your chin and you speak of Italian force...
Hitler-"No, only Italian force...
...Terra was not among the delegates to the Lima conference. Uruguay's welterweight strongman, who ran the country personally for seven years before turning it over to be technically run by his brother-in-law six months ago, was at home in Montevideo, touting the wonders of the Italian Government, whose guest he had just been. When the Uruguayan stooges at Lima got through renouncing the principle of trading with the dictatorships, Dr. Terra's Fascist friends cheerfully sprang the trade agreement they had been making for months in Rome...