Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cannon Shots. Famed poet-patriot-playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio mounted to the prow of the desiccated Italian battleship Puglia, which the Fascist Government has had placed upon the lawn of his estate at Lake Garda, Italy. From that vantage point he exulted in the threats which Mussolini had loosed at Rome. Raising his right arm straight before him at an angle of 45 degrees (the Fascist salute), he gave the signal for a salute of 27 guns, which promptly boomed from the cannon of the Puglia... Then he telegraphed "congratulations from the prow of the Puglia" to Mussolini...
Benito Retorts. While the Italian Senate seethed about him in expectant approval of whatever he might be going to say, Mussolini mounted the Tribune: "The long and tortuous speech of Stresemann makes it necessary for me to make an immediate reply, which shall be clean and precise, like the speech I made in the Chamber last Saturday...
...That speech was not improvised; it was patiently?I repeat, patiently?thought out during two months of ignoble anti-Italian uproar...
...confirm in the spirit and the letter my former speech, including the final allusion to the Italian flag on the Brenner Pass, which Stresemann can interpret as he will, but which Italians interpret in the sense that Italy will never submit to the violation of treaties of peace which guarantee their frontiers conquered at such a heavy price of blood...
Between Egypt and Italian Tripoli, just north of the great Libyan Desert, lies the tiny oasis-city of Jarabub, an excessively important water supply station for the trans-Libyan caravans. There in 1855 the potent sheik, Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, established the stronghold of his fraternity or sect, the Senussites, who continue to possess tremendous influence in the region...