Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North American attention is seldom focused on the passing trials of our neighbors to the south. Now, however, there appears to have emerged a movement of some consequence, Pan Latinism. It hints at the union of South and Central American countries as well as brotherly affiliation with their European kin in Spain, Italy and Portugal...
...much love the pan-Germans, who help us, as hate the pan-Italians, who force our children to attend schools conducted only in Italian and harass us in numberless ways. The truth is that we are a 'frontier people' too weak ever to achieve the independence we would like...
...week the Chamber again rang with Fascist cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of pan-German propagandists to hinder his Italianization of the pre-War Alto Adige, or South-Austrian Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy at the Peace Conference...
While even the occupants of the royal box appeared to incline a willing ear, and the public galleries seethed amid a pandemonium of approval, Premier Mussolini spoke with a venomous suppressed fury as follows: "Let pan-Germans remember that Italy is ready, if necessary, to carry her banners beyond her present frontiers but back? never! . . . The German anti-Italian agitation is nefarious and ridiculous. I call it nefarious because it is based upon a tissue of lies which the Germans themselves know to be lies. I call it ridiculous because the Germans have thought to frighten our young proud Fascist...
...Significance. Easy-going foreigners wondered vaguely, "Why all this fuss about the Tyrolese? Aren't they the people who wear those funny little hats?" To such paragons of unconcern an embittered Tyrolese might have answered as follows: "We of the Southern Tyrol have no great love for either the pan-Italians or the pan-Germans. Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among...