Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German Reichstag vigorously rejects the Italian Prime Minister's objectively unjustifiable and insultingly phrased attacks and sneers...
...Germany has no means of interfering directly in the [Germanic] Italian Tyrol. Mussolini is quite right when he speaks of conditions there as a domestic matter. But Italy has the duty of protecting the German minority there. If out of a policy of oppression there arises international danger, an appeal to the League of Nations is in order...
Tempestuous Berliners sought their favorite speisehausen (cafes) and pounded the tables till their steins jumped. "Schweinhund!" they bellowed. "Pig-dog! Derslueht MUSSOLINI!" With wrathful fingers of scorn, they pointed to the "cursed" Mussolini's declaration in the Italian Chamber (TIME, Feb. 15) that Italy intends to "rigorously, methodically and obstinately Italianize" the Alto Adige (the Germanic-Italian Tyrol), and that "Italy is ready if necessary to carry her banners beyond her present frontiers [at the Brenner Pass] but back never...
...interested only in preventing insurmountable obstacles being placed in the way of unification of the German race. "In the name of the German Government, I scoff at these Italian threats...
Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...