Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the day Germany invaded Poland the word Asse ("Axis") has not appeared in the Italian press. The "plutodemocracies," meaning France and Britain (and sometimes the U. S.), which all summer long were the object of Fascist journalistic abuse, now get more or less fair press treatment. The Italian public has been reminded very seldom, if at all, that it was diabolical Britain which pushed sanctions against Italy four years ago and the once vociferous Italian claims on French-owned Tunisia, Corsica, Savoy, Nice and Djibouti have not been discussed out loud...
Professor Elliott based his belief that the war would be long and drawn out on the fact that England must fight the battle out or be crippled as an Empire. A truce at present would consolidate the Italian and German position in Europe. Furthermore, he added, such a peace would be disastrous for this country...
Eight weeks ago Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano spent three days with Führer Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, returned with news that plunged Mussolini into profound silence. Last week Count Ciano saw them both again. He also was going to talk "peace." But of this visit little notice was taken; Count Ciano stayed less than 24 hours, returned to Rome having discussed, according to authoritative sources...
Correspondents in Berlin were still treated with unwonted courtesy by Nazi officials, still cabled their stories without Government interference. At the Taverne, Italian restaurant in Kurfürsten Strasse, they could sit around the newsmen's stammtisch (regular customers' table) sipping their brandy-and-lemon Nikolaevskys long after Berlin's 1 a.m. war curfew, when other restaurants closed. As a special favor the Government gave them laborers' rations: two pounds of meat a week, instead of the single pound allotted to white-collar workers...
Artist Brockhurst's portraits have the bloom and precise brushwork of the Umbrian school of Italian painters. The figures are serene, meticulously painted against quiet-colored Tuscan landscapes of rolling hills, flowing water, umbrella pines. But posterity is in no danger of mistaking the nationality of his subjects. Brock-hurst's Americans are American, his English sitters unmistakably English. Suavest of his U. S. portraits is that of Mrs. Paul Mellon, the Vassar graduate and divorcee whom Banker Andrew's only son married in 1935.* His drawings and etchings show the same care for line and texture...