Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mediterranean, the Nazis slammed at Malta and the Italians made bumble-footed assaults on British convoys. Objects: 1) to clear the Mediterranean for the movement of Axis troops; 2) to knock out British supply...
...second movement of Beethoven's Ninth is just the right rhythm for polishing the 'furniture; the second movement of his Fifth is a mopping-the-kitchen-floor rhythm. Siegfried Idyll makes picking mud up from the children's boots not irksome in the least...
...authentic, Agent in Italy is the only firsthand description of the organization and workings of this great secret movement yet published in English. It is also the first revelation in detail of the extent to which Italy has become a Nazi-occupied province. And from the internal evidence alone, it may be that Agent in Italy is authentic...
...reports, of two main groups-the Matteotti group and the Communist-Anarchist group. "The Matteotti is in fact a people's front, for it embraces political persuasions ranging from Social Democrats on the left over to and including the aristocracy on the right. . . . It is no longer a movement for any set of principles as much as against the regime. . . . By the time I arrived in Italy, its membership of three hundred thousand reached into Fascist circles, into the Questura, and especially into the student body of Italy. . . . Its leadership is responsible and must be taken seriously...
With Cyprus taken, the oil-hungry Axis would be almost at the mouth of the Haifa and Tripoli oil pipelines, within easy striking range of Allied land forces, spread thin along the northern rim of Africa. Only Cyprus stood in the way of such an eastern pincers movement...