Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...image of a pale, young Napoleon seizing the tricolor at the Battle of Arcole know the work of Baron Antoine Jean Gros. A pupil of David, the court painter and classicist, Gros took the field after he met Bonaparte at Milan and accompanied his army during the first Italian campaign. Charged by the Emperor with the duty of selecting artistic booty, he is responsible for the nucleus of the Louvre's vast treasury. Little known in the U. S., Gros was represented last week at Knoedler's by 17 pictures, six of them lent...
Chris Simpson's father, a violent-tempered Italian, present whereabouts unknown, married Chris's Irish mother, present whereabouts unknown, when she was 15. They begat nine children, whom the father never supported and frequently abused. When Chris, the youngest child, was five, the State of Michigan decided that his home was no place for him, instead placed him in its Children's Institute at Ann Arbor. A year later Chris was released to Mrs. Harriet Atwood, wealthy farmer's widow, began attending the one-room Bigelow Rural School in Calhoun County, Michigan. He grew faster than...
will also endeavor to make what contribution they can to the urgent need of facilitating emigration from Germany." Meanwhile, almost unnoticed during the week, the Anglo-Italian Treaty of last April was brought into effect and King-Emperor George VI with his own hand signed the credentials of British Ambassador Lord Perth to Italy's now-recognized King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele...
Continuing the Aryanization of Italy, the Italian Government last month decreed : that Italians may no longer marry non-Aryans; that Italian civil and military officials may not marry foreigners; that other Italians may marry foreigners only with permission of the Ministry of the Interior. These decrees incensed the Holy See. In practice the number of marriages involved is small; but in theory the laws violate the 1929 concordat between Church and State. By that concordat. Italy recognizes the validity of all marriages contracted in Roman Catholic churches...
...Romano pointed out that, "by the rights that God Himself conferred, which the Church grants to all her children without discrimination," the Church holds it her mission to sanctify marriages-including those between Catholics of different races -which are valid under canon law. The Osservatore revealed that before the Italian decrees were published "the august person of the Holy Father himself intervened directly with two paternal letters, one addressed to the head of the Government, the other to the King-Emperor." Last week Pius XI presumably had no reply from Mussolini. King Vittorio Emanuele, however, wrote him promising "the greatest...