Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the navy is capable of making "life uncomfortable" for the Allies in the Mediterranean, Italian participation would mean early French capture of such cities as Turin and Milan...
...Born in Berlin, the only son of a banker, Architect Richard Rothschild moved with his wife to Milan, Italy, soon after Hitler came into power. When Italy ordered the expulsion of all Jews who had entered the country after 1919, Architect Rothschild tried to get permission to move to some other country. After a great deal of difficulty, he got a permit for himself & family to enter Chile, in return for which he agreed o help Chile rebuild after its earthquake (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939, et seq.). Well-to-do, he sailed from Genoa with his family and belongings last...
...basis of past deeds for the Third Republic. At World War I's start M. Cachin, Left-wing Socialist editor of Humanité, rang the bells for patriotism, called Kaiser Wilhelm II "that mad dog." An expert on Italian radical movements, he later encouraged Editor Benito Mussolini, of Milan's Socialist journal Popolo d'ltalia, to plug hard for Italy's entry into the war on France's side. To Editor Cachin was assigned the delicate mission of seeing that French money found its way into Editor Mussolini's pants. But afterwards...