Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed with which the curtain of murderous secrecy was being torn from past Communist pretension was making fools of foreign Communist leaders. In Rome Palmiro Togliatti, facing a lethargic Italian Communist National Council meeting, swept his arms towards a picture of Stalin hanging on a marble column, shouted: "They say we have dethroned a saint. I say to them we have never had saints ... He has conquered his place in history ... as builder and defender of Socialist society...
...knifed a policeman to death in an Athens street fight. Next year Greek Dictator John Metaxas locked him away in a medieval prison on the island of Corfu. In prison, learning that Stalin was still honoring his pact with Hitler, Zachariades ordered Greek Communists to cease resisting the 1940 Italian invasion. When Greece fell to the Axis, the Germans shipped Zachariades from Corfu to Dachau, where the U.S. Army found him in 1945 and flew him home to Greece...
...month, including tuition, universities are mainly occupied with giving summer language courses in the quatro-lingual state. The universities of Geneva, Lausanne, and Neuchatel teach in French. The canton schools of St. Gallen, Winterthur, and Chur offer German language courses. In southern Switzerland at Bellinzona, the school gives Italian instruction...
...stay in Italy can cost as little as $50 per month. Italian schools and universities specialize in giving courses in history, music, literature, and fine arts. The University Summer Courses in Aquila, the University of Florence, the Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia, the University of Pisa, the Societa Dante Alighieri, and the University of Urbino give courses in late July about local art treasurers. Perugia and Pisa Universities offer special instruction on Etruscan antiquities...
...Italian colleges, only the courses of the American Academy in Rome are conducted in English. Music is taught at the Academia Musicale Chigians of Siena and the Venice Conservatory. The University of Florence adds a special course on Dante July 15 to August...