Word: ltalia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still silent remained Il Duce's own paper Il Popolo d'ltalia (to which all Fascist Party members must subscribe), unwilling yet to attack Joseph Stalin or to slam the Moscow-Berlin Axis. There will be time enough for that when it becomes certain that Joseph Stalin is going to thwart Benito Mussolini's ambitions in the Balkans...
...some "nervous" moments. The Army was temporarily cut in two at the Ticino River when Red bombers "destroyed" a strategically important bridge. Toiling engineers threw a temporary bridge across the Ticino in 16 hours-"a fine page in their glorious tradition," crowed Virginio Gayda's Giornale d'ltalia. New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews sourly commented that it was "evidently a very solid and complicated bridge," for he had seen Spanish Loyalists in a fraction of that time build structures strong enough to carry tanks across the wider Ebro...
...editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive demand that Italy join the Allies against Germany and Austria-Hungary. He went to the front in 1916 and was soon severely wounded...
...Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels sicked the entire German press on the President, but nothing out of Germany last week compared in vitriol, scorn, ridicule and invective to what was being written in Italy. There, Virginio Gayda, Dictator Benito Mussolini's journalistic mouthpiece, declared in Giornale d'ltalia that the President's words were an "open provocation to war," that President Roosevelt "himself plans and welcomes armed conflict." Since the U. S. frontiers are now the Rhine, Signor Gayda said, Italy's and Germany's frontiers should now be extended to the Panama Canal...
...planes to France. Popolo di Roma denounced the "scandalous supply of planes to France" and expressed belief that this was a violation of the U. S. Constitution, which it is not. Warning France not to believe that U. S. help would be forthcoming in a war, Popolo d'ltalia said: "This is one of the most colossal delusions into which France has ever fallen. Because, if despite the efforts of the totalitarian states to insure a just peace, war should break out, before the U. S. could say 'Oh!' the French frontier would be smashed to bits...