Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after attaining a universal perspective of the situation. However, a careful investigation of the trend of history is hardly necessary, for during the past week, a significant illustration of the force of power has arisen. Premier Mussolini, in attacking the "intolerable interference" of Austria in the Upper Adige, or Italian Tyrol, is voicing the assurance of a nation which feels capable of enforcing its own policy and protecting its own boundaries and at the same time is on the point of sacrificing the principles of justice for those of force...
...background interspersing speech with song. Two lovers and the Sultan are the Romantic personages, while the keeper of the harem, fat and drunken, and a sportive maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA" ADELE VASA...
...rose in the Austrian Parliament and declared "The treatment of the Lower Tyroleans is in our opinion incompatible with minority rights, and is a hindrance to further amicable relations between Austria and Italy, which are very desirable." To explain and excuse the Austrian Parliament's outspoken criticism of Italian Administration of the Lower Tyrol, Chancellor Seipel shrewdly added "the Italian Government must realize that there is quite a difference between interference in another nation's domestic affairs and expressing disapproval of those affairs...
Result: The Italian Minister at Vienna, Signor Giacinto Auriti immediately left for Rome to inform Il Duce of precisely what had occurred. Rumor visioned a diplomatic break between Italy and Austria, but more likely loomed the prospect that Il Duce would administer to Austria a tongue lashing similar to that which he indulged in against Germany when Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann flayed the Italianization of Lower Tyrol...
...Mussolini was anticipated last week by the authoritative Giornale D'ltalia of Rome which described Chancellor Seipel's speech as "insincere," and asserted that the Higher Adige is governed "with the same regime and the same application of rights and duties as those prevailing in all other Italian provinces...