Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred-and-seventy-pound Reichs Marshal Hermann Göring was 50 years old last week. From all over Europe presents poured in. They filled three halls in his palatial Karinhall, and included a long-buried Roman helmet found in Milan after a recent excavation by an R.A.F. bomb...
...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...
...impoverished peasants of Yugoslavia-Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Hungarians, Christians and Moslems-have shown an increasing preference for the Partisans. They have deserted Mihailovich, who works for a greater Serbia, the Fascist Ustachi, who want a greater Croatia, and the Serbian collaborationists under the quisling General Milan Neditch...
...unnatural Mussolini's state of war is to the Italian people was evident after bombers had swarmed over Milan. Public outcries and wall inscriptions calling for peace led Il Duce to change governors and purge his Party leadership. When King Vittorio Emanuel and his Queen, aping Britain's monarchs, visited Milan and Turin, haggard, frightened civilians chanted, "We want peace...
When Napoleon's troopers stabled their horses in Milan's monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie and scribbled on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, they were behaving as soldiers have always behaved in Europe's wars. But Axis vandalism against other nations' cultures has been deliberate and systematic...