Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister, Chief of the Government and Minister of the Interior, of War, of the Navy, Air and of Italian Africa: Benito Mussolini...
There were a lot of other unhappy reasons for B. Mussolini's neutrality: the Italian people are fed up with the efficiency experts and barking generals sent among them by A. Hitler to improve their working and fighting. Hitler's deal with Stalin affronted Fascism, despite feverish rationalizations (TIME, Sept. 4). Italy would not have Spain, now, to hamper France's rear. That alliance of godless ones affronted also the Roman Catholic faith. Italy is dirt poor. Above all, though B. Mussolini can pep them up enormously, the Italian people do not honestly like to fight...
...crisscrossed with conflicting currents that ran ever more strongly; it was marked with eddies and backwaters set up by the rush of opposing interests. Along its southern shore Egypt's Army of 22,500 was mobilized, but also, in Libya, were the 120,000 soldiers of unpredictable Italy (though Italian armies drew back from the frontiers). French Morocco and Algeria, granaries as well as a source of French manpower (total population of France's African Empire: 41,000,000), were valuable to France in proportion as the Mediterranean remained free to transport. Along the Mediterranean's northern shore the line...
...Maher Pasha moved with no such heavy steps. Adjoining Egypt is rich Italian Libya, with 120,000 troops. Last week, after Benito Mussolini proclaimed Italian neutrality, these troops stepped back from the Egyptian frontiers. Promptly the Egyptian Cabinet met, took the first step toward declaring war on Germany by breaking off diplomatic relations. If Benito Mussolini was playing Adolf Hitler's game by waiting, Ali Maher Pasha wanted to find it out. If Italy took no stand in this attack on her Axis partner, her intentions would be that much clearer. Ali Maher Pasha settled back to war with...
...picture sensational is that, although there are many Leonardo drawings, experts concede only 13 (some only four) da Vinci paintings to exist. The British Museum has one of the best of numerous pen studies for a Madonna with the Cat. In Britain, too, is the one man whom Italian scholars need to consult before pronouncing their find authentic, Sir Kenneth McKenzie Clark, director of the National Gallery since...