Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech of Senator Harding. It was long, conventional and dull; but he seemed to be very much pleased with it. ... It [the Republican party] believed 'in American policies at home and abroad.' This was very informing. It might have been interesting if it had . . . expressed belief in Italian policies at home and Japanese policies abroad...
...laurel wreath and a bouquet of roses were placed by a Fascist usher on the desk of Signor Mussolini as the Italian Chamber assembled last week in extraordinary session. The galleries and boxes twittered and sparkled with the elect of Rome, Fascist patricians who had come to cheer Il Duce as he put through the Chamber his Defense Decrees (TIME, Nov. 15) punishing with death attempts upon his life, and virtually abrogating civil liberty in Italy...
Decrees. Minister of Justice Rocco next arose to present the Defense Decrees. From these had been stricken the celebrated clause defying international law by providing that the Italian courts should sentence to imprisonment foreigners who spoke or wrote ill of Italy even in their own countries. As introduced last week this clause provided punishment for foreigners committing such crime only when they are in Italy...
Rail Congestion. So drastic are the new passport regulations affecting persons entering or leaving Italy that last week many of the trains crossing the Italian frontier were almost empty. Returning travelers told of standing in line for hours while Italian passport and customs inspectors pored over papers and luggage which they usually pass with a perfunctory inspection or a paternal...
Cried Croat Raditch before a public gathering at Ogulin: "Premier Mussolini is an irresponsible fool! . . . The Italian people are gagged and enslaved. . . . The French are remaining calm because they know that Mussolini is a lunatic who must be humored. . . . Italy is under a worse despot today than in the time of Nero. . . . Conditions are worse than in Soviet Russia. A little group is prison warden for the nation. Each man spies upon his neighbor and nowhere is there security . . . . Mussolini will suffer the destiny to which he is doomed...