Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reich Foreign Minister, pointed out Germany's deadly fear of Communism and her desire to see a stable government in Spain-i.e., to see Generalissimo Francisco Franco win the Spanish War. M. Bonnet got a quibbling answer when he asked Herr Ribbentrop point-blank whether Germany supported Italian claims to Tunisia (see below...
More seriously, 1,000 French and Arabs, marched to the Italian Consulate General at Tunis, capital of Tunisia, and hurled bottles of red and blue ink at the white walls until its sides were splattered with France's national colors. One bottle arched through a window and reportedly splashed a portrait of King Vittorio Emanuele. Bands of Italians and Frenchmen roamed the streets singing their rival national hymns, La Marseillaise and Giovinezza...
Meanwhile in Italy a studied unofficial campaign against France continued. The controlled press fumed against "French provocations" and in every Italian city of any size "spontaneous" delegations of school children, excused from classes, were sent tramping through the streets to shout "Down with France! Tunisia, Corsica to Italy!" Some 1,000 Nazi Strength Through Joy visitors in Naples enlisted for one of these parades to show the "solidarity"' of the Axis...
...demonstrations and press fulminations grew in intensity, the situation took on a grave aspect. With as much publicity as possible an Italian royal decree was issued which provided special armaments appropriations of $65,000,000, a 20% increase over the regular military expenses already appropriated. Italy's Chief of Staff and Under Secretary for War, General Alberto Pariani. who has recently visited Berlin, was pointedly dispatched to inspect the defenses on the island of Sardinia, eight miles south of Corsica...
Turning to the threat of totalitarian influence in South America, Professor Haring said, "I have a strong feeling that German and Italian propaganda may turn out to be a boomerang. It has certainly had little or no concrete result on trade, since the figures for 1937 show that neither Germany nor Italy increased its proportional share of South American trade over the previous year...