Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, aghast, looked for a clause, a phrase, a word that could be interpreted as a loophole. Even the German-Italian military alliance, reported Paris-Soir's authoritative Foreign Editor Jules Sauerwein last week, contained a clause in which Germany promised to make no war for three years. By contrast the phrasing of last week's Pact was as inescapable as handcuffs...
...were available in the Holy Land to swell 10,000 Jews already under arms. British troops in Palestine number about 20,000. To cut off German munitions bootlegged to unruly Arabs, the British last year built a wall along the Trans-Jordan border. They have courted Arab favor (over Italian-German incitement) with some success, rely on Turkey and her army of 1,500,000 to keep the Arabs in line and help hold the Suez as well as the Dardanelles. Last week the specially friendly, oil-rich Kingdom of Iraq bought 15 Douglas Northrop military ships, for October delivery...
...foreign mining interests. Capital to build Government-dominated tin foundries (the Bolivian mines of Tycoon Simon I. Patiño produce about 15% of the world's supply) was being sought in Manhattan last week by Busch's Minister of Mines & Petroleum Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and Bolivian mother, second husband of a girl from New Haven, Conn, whom a Bolivian artist took home with him from Yale. Señor Foianini offered no theory other than nervous suicide about the dead Condor last week. But he was deeply sad, and in a great hurry...
...four times as many men in Europe as it had at any time during the last war. Last week the A. P. sent a man 350 miles from Rome to the heel of Italy to get a 200-word story whose chief item of interest was that the Italian remount service was inspecting the local donkeys. In July 1914, Karl von Wiegand cabled the U. P. 138 words on the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia and was called down for wasting tolls...
...Ships, standing by for wartime service, canceled their sailings, among them nearly every German and Italian liner...