Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venice, Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano met Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia. Result: Yugoslavia agreed to "deepen the faithful collaboration" with Germany and Italy, will probably soon join the Rome-Berlin -Tokyo -Budapest anti - Comintern Pact. A former Little Entente ally of France and signer of the Balkan Pact, Yugoslavia became last week a dead loss to the "Peace Front" of Britain and France...
...British and French Governments would normally regard the date of Spain's victory parade as El Caudillo's own private little matter. But long ago Dictator Benito Mussolini solemnly promised British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Italian soldiers would be withdrawn from Spain as soon as the war was over. When the last Loyalist citadel was captured, the British waited a discreet time, then reminded II Duce of his sworn word...
Fortnight ago Secretary General Achille ("The Panther Man") Starace of the Italian Fascist Party prowled through the halls of the Palazzo Littorio, Fascist headquarters in Rome, in an ugly mood. He called in the Party's trained mob-prompters and furiously dressed them down for an event which might have passed unnoticed by the outside world had Signor Starace not made such a fuss...
...Alcalá, along with 500,000 Spaniards, in a final salute to El Caudillo. And Italy could surely not be held responsible for Dictator Franco's delays. Last week the British and French began to suspect that Il Duce and El Caudillo were giving them the runaround, that Italian soldiers might remain in Spain just as long as Dictator Mussolini wants them there and Dictator Franco will have them...
Glamor Guys. The younger school of illustrators is, in technique, distinguished for lucid wash drawing, "suggestion" and glamor. Its pioneer artist is Italian-born John La Gatta, 45, a mustachioed believer in the tall brunette and one of the few big-money illustrators who providentially salted his earnings away in real property (on Long Island Sound, with a yacht) before 1929. La Gatta's specialty is swooningly sleek backs. The sex appeal which is La Gatta's stock-in-trade has been parodied by Yaleman Peter Arno in the most devastating battles of black & white in contemporary drawing...