Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calabria was "the Land of the Sybarites," citizens who inhabited the metropolis of Sibaris and were accused by the conquering Romans of sleeping upon rose leaves. Today its stupid people toil in almost feudal servitude upon lands chiefly owned by the Italian nobility. Murders are almost twice as common as in Sicily and thefts more frequent than in Sardinia...
...wholesome reading be extolled in their services. Other books should not be extolled. Said the Pontiff: "Favored by marvelous gifts from God for ingenuity and creative fantasy, it is rare that he has not left in his work some traces of impiety and immorality." "He" was, all agreed, famed Italian poet and playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio...
Fascismo has its extreme right wing, a group of zealots called "The Savages" in Italian argot. Last fortnight one of these bravos, Signor Mario Carli, set forth in his newspaper, L'Impero, certain maxims...
...Austrian Parliament resounded last week with furious criticisms of the Italian Administration of Lower Tyrol. This province, which Italians call the Higher Adige, was transferred by post-War treaties from Austria-Hungary to Italy. Last week in the Austrian Parliament deputies Kold and Abrams of Higher Tyrol, which is still Austrian, luridly described the sufferings of Lower Tyrolese under Il Duce's regime of impetuous Italianization...
Cried Deputy Abrams "beautiful women are incarcerated without cause in the prisons [of Lower Tyrol] and are released only when they have surrendered their chastity to brutal [Italian] jailers!" Deputy Kold revamped in detail the familiar fact that Italianization of the Lower Tyrol (or Higher Adige) has been ruthlessly carried out, even to the extent of altering from German into Italian the very names of streets and the lettering on tableware in formerly Austrian hotels...