Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rebel offensive near Tremp, 40 miles south of the French border, was carried out by Aragonese troops commanded by General José Moscardó. The most unusual feature of the offensive, however, was that for the first time since the rout of Italian troops at Guadalajara in March 1937. unmixed divisions of Italian "legionnaires" were again in the front lines, south of Lérida...
...from Rebel Spain did any hint of Italian participation come, but from Italy itself. The Fascist press attacked France for still supporting the Loyalists, but saw no inconsistency in boasting (Loyalist communiques substantiated the boast) that four Italian divisions (about 40,000 men) were heroically conquering Catalonia. These divisions included famed Black Shirt detachments. Italian correspondents wrote from Spain that among the Italian soldiers were veterans of the offensives of Málaga, Bilbao, Santander, Aragon...
Also from Italy came details of material help to Generalissimo Franco. Dictator Benito Mussolini's controlled press told how, in the last two months, new equipment had been sent from Italy to Spain, including more machine guns, better artillery, bigger reserves of munitions. Previously described was the Italian "Legion of the Air" in Spain, working out of Majorca, and its system of "chain bombing of murderous intensity" over Loyalist territory...
Most embarrassed by these disclosures was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has said many times that he took Il Duce's word for it that Italian help to Generalissimo Franco would be reduced, not increased. Three months ago a token withdrawal of 10,000 Italian troops from Spain took place. On that showing Mr. Chamberlain implemented an Anglo-Italian treaty. Although Dictator Mussolini was expected to demand of the Prime Minister at Rome next week (see p. 21) that Britain grant belligerent rights to Rebel Spain, from London last week came hints that Mr. Chamberlain, for his part...
With Premier Edouard Daladier about to make a swing around France's North African possessions to promote "empire solidarity," France's East African colonists in French Somaliland were suddenly thrown into a panic by reports that 80,000 Italian troops were about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country. As long as 18 months ago, Paris colonial officials noted that detachments of Il Duce's troops had occupied areas on what was probably the French side of the ill-defined French Somaliland-Italian East African border...