Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Benito Mussolini had a long talk with 77-year-old Marshal Enrico Caviglia, one of the few Italian heroes of World War I. Marshal Caviglia had recently inspected the fortifications on the Italo-French frontier and it was presumed that he and Il Duce did not discuss the weather. After this meeting all good Italians still waited anxiously for Mussolini to say something very definite about which way Italy would jump, as they had waited for three weeks since war began...
...Britain and France-on paper at least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
...programs will consist of discussions in German, French, and Italian covering "the American business situation, data on American politics, and an account of the American point of view on some important problems of foreign affairs," according to Professor Cross...
...French text will be provided by Marcel Francon, instructor in Romance Languages; and the Italian, by Charles R. D. Miller '23, instructor in German. Professor Cross himself will prepare the German text. Their words will be shot into the ether via WRUL's new directional antenna, part of the equipment which makes the station one of the strongest shortwave units in the country...
...people know much about Machiavelli except that he sired the sinister adjective Machiavellian. Even those who know a little more differ widely about him. Some, like Ralph Roeder (The Man of the Renaissance), consider Machiavelli an Italian patriot and his Prince a kind of Mein Kampf of Italy's struggle for unity. Others, like Author Valeriu Marcu, consider Machiavelli a single-track political mind whose curious obsession with the pure mechanics of power is his first-class ticket to genius...