Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some positive antitotalitarian act, such as France's ordering more warplanes from the U. S., Britain's guaranteeing another country's security, Poland's refusal to give up Danzig. What pained Germany and Italy this time, however, was French and British indifference at the German-Italian military alliance (TIME, May 15), which Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop ceremoniously signed at Berlin...
...famed Uruguayan player named Figliola. To their dismay, the Vasco da Gamas discovered that Figliola had already been signed up by a football club in Genoa, in coffee-hungry Italy. More eager than ever, they cabled Genoa, offered to buy his contract. Prompt was the reply: the Italian Football Federation would permit the Genoese club to release Figliola if the Brazilian club would pay for him with coffee beans...
...public schools, threw light on the present U. S. attitude toward foreigners in a report on the languages studied by the city's high-school youth. Overwhelming favorite (107,000 students): French. Second (41,400): Spanish. Well down on the list (16,500) but gaining fast: Italian. Most spectacular trend: a five-year drop (since Hitler) of 35% in the number studying German (now 16,900). At the present rate of decline, Dr. Huebener feared, German will soon approach its 1918 unpopularity, when only 40 New York City pupils studied...
...Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim no country...
Jean Giono, 44, is a burly, self-educated French-Italian hillbilly, whom critics have called "one of the giants of modern French letters." He lives in a remote mountain village of the Basses-Alpes, writes unusual novels about hamhanded, muscularly poetic peasants against bright-colored, heroic landscapes. He eschews the literary world, refuses to visit Paris,* and has become almost a legendary figure in France. Two years ago U. S. readers were introduced to Giono with The Song of the World, agreed that Giono packs a powerful pastoral punch...