Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angelo Michieli left his native Italian village, sailed to the U. S. to make a new home. His wife and infant son he had to leave behind until he had their passage money saved...
...alliance specifically exempted Russia and was only indirectly aimed at Germany, the full force of it was felt in Italy. The Italian-owned Dodecanese Islands lie just off the coast of Turkey: British and French warships are now assured of ample bases in the eastern as well as the western Mediterranean; and the Allies' new partner has an army of 700,000 ready to fight in the Mediterranean area...
Saturday, Sunday, Monday passed after Dr. Dietrich's warning and still Herr Hitler did not say the word that would send bombers roaring over London and Paris. There was talk of summoning to Berlin Italian and Russian emissaries for a conference of war. It was doubtful, however, whether the Italians cared to talk things over with the Russians...
...airmen's Mahan is General Giulio Douhet, an Italian artilleryman who survived War I to propound the doctrine that air power is the decisive power. The Douhet theory holds that major wars can be won, and won quickly (while ground troops are mobilized as they are on the Western Front), by unrestricted mass destruction poured on civilian populations, their communications and utilities, from thousands of airplanes carrying hundreds of tons of bombs. So far War II has seen...
Died. Count Enrico Rossi di Montelera, 66, head of the famed Italian wine firm of Martini & Rossi, uncle of speedboat-racer Count Theo Rossi; in Turin...