Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that moment, with Italian Commander-in-Chief Luigi Cadorna in desperate retreat, the Third Army was found to be masterfully holding its own. The successful Third Army General was Armando Diaz. Cadorna was brushed aside and Diaz became Commander-in-Chief on Nov. 9, 1917. Within 360 days he had not only retrieved the losses of Caporetto but shattered the Austro-Hungarian armies and forced the Dual Monarchy to sign an abject separate peace...
Later Il Duce informs the Chamber of Deputies, characteristically, that "Marshal Diaz's whole life might be summed up in the one word 'duty.' " As everyone knows, that is the one word which Il Duce never tires of dinning into weary Italian noodles...
...also our conviction that a war between Italy and Serbia, if Bulgaria and Rumania can be prevented from attacking Serbia, will be a short one. The Serbs are good fighters, and, fighting in their own territory, will administer a stinging defeat to the Italian armies. Italy will not be able to deploy great forces to fight Serbia...
...event of Bulgaria attacking Serbia, if found advisable, jointly by Russia and the Turkish republic, we shall attack Bulgaria. A defeated and humiliated Serbia would open a highway to the exuberant Italian armies to march across Bulgaria to our frontiers. That we shall never countenance...
...sooner did Prince Carol arrive in Nice than M. Titulescu, desiring to avoid all contact with him, moved himself and suite across the border from French Mentone to nearby Italian San Remo. Good natured Dr. Stresemann then kept the negotiations going by motoring back and forth between these neighboring towns. Prince Carol, not provided with papers permitting him to enter Italy, could not and possibly did not desire to make contact with the Foreign Minister of the Rumanian Government with which he is at odds...