Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Figuratively speaking, Fascist Rome fulminated, last week, at Socialist Vienna. The quarrel started last fortnight when the Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel encouraged deputies in the Austrian Parliament to flay the alleged oppressive Italian administration now existing in the formerly Austrian province of Lower Tyrol (TIME, March 5). Last week Signor Benito Mussolini hurled back a reply from the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Cried...
Such were the heroic words gasped out by a desperately wounded Italian Colonel during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. Death was, however, not quite ready to snatch away Armando Diaz, then 51, and quite unknown outside the Army. By a miracle he recovered from his battle wounds and lived to die, last week, in bed, of bronchial pneumonia, at 66. The 15 years of grace thus granted by Death had enabled Colonel Diaz to become Marshal Diaz, the nation's military idol, the first commander to lead United Italy from national defeat to national victory...
Regarding the Tyrol the people have always spoken Italian, but between Botzen and Brenner to the north lies the German-speaking populace at the present moment in the Fascist vise. German stock, German feelings, German traditions are indigenous...
Mussolini has tried by brute force to Italianize these people by suppressing the local newspapers and forbidding the teaching of German in the schools. He has forced Austrian families to change their surnames, if there was any Italian blood in the stock. He has done these things in spite of the fact that in 1922 he and the King of Italy insured the people of Tyrol that they might live unoppressed. His actions prove the extent to which Wilson's ideals have been adapted by nations only in so far as they coincided with the individual country's advantage. When...
...continued Professor Langer, "while he does not employ it with Savoy and Nice, the real power of the opposition. By this catering to the public taste, and by such means as his bringing out a bust of himself as successor of the old Romans, he shows his understanding of Italian hearts and their love of the spectacular. Thus he makes himself a hero in their eyes. I don't believe that he personally believes very seriously his superficial policy of reconstructing the old Roman Empire...