Word: italianity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeating that the German Army would "march" unless Prague yielded to all his demands, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain addressed the Empire and the U.S. by radio, declared Führer Hitler's demands "unreasonable." The next day, at a time of even greater tension he appealed to the Italian Premier to use his good offices with the Führer...
...Duce, as the ally of the Führer, alone rated to be met at the frontier of Germany by the Chancellor. The Italian Premier is also the only one of the four chiefs who can speak English, German, French and Italian. Nobody needed to speak Czech. The Big Four, in accordance with the original concept of 1933, were about to constitute themselves the arbiters of Europe, excluding from their councils Czechoslovakia, the League and the Soviet Union. M. Daladier and Mr. Chamberlain, arriving separately by air, were met by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...total of 10,000 square miles progressively by October 10. Moreover, plebiscites will now be held under an international commission of five set up by the Big Four, consisting of one Czech, one Briton, one Frenchman, one German and one Italian-thus weighted 3 to 2 on the side of the democracies. Neutral observers predicted: "The Czechs now have a good chance to win most of the plebiscites," which are to be held by November 30. The Commission of Five is empowered to recommend "minor modifications in strictly ethnographical determination of the zones which are to be transferred without plebiscite...
...taxes and "the present lack of appreciation for fine food." Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt explained why she never writes out her speeches: "I found that if I did not have to think about what I was saying, I became bored with my own conversation." As the $51,065-ton Italian liner Rex slid up New York Harbor, news spread over the ship that Europe was not going to war after all. Bursting with this glorious coincidence, Metropolitan Opera Stars Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza exploded into super-canary song. Ex-Opera Star Beniamino Gigli, who left the Metropolitan...
...Second Year Italian," Professor Camille P. Merlino, of Boston University, at 7 o'clock, at Boston University...