Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the result could even for a moment be in doubt was a bitter comment on the West's terrible uncertainty. It was in the Italian peninsula that the West's Christian faith, bearing a cross and strange new hopes, had begun its conquest of the world. Was it to be defeated now, on the soil on which it had been strongest, by the new tyrannical faith of Communism...
...course of Europe for the next hundred years. This awful responsibility has been placed unsought on the Italian. It has come by reason of his country's strategic position, because Italy has been made the testing ground for Communism and Western Democracy in a free election, because the Peninsula is the center of the struggle between Communism and Catholicism...
Nowhere on the continent of Europe is the outlook for students more grim than on the troubled Greek peninsula. A World Student Relief investigator wires from Geneva that an undeclared Balkan war, corruption in the home government, and only pitiful and halting efforts at economic recovery make the task of assistance overwhelming...
...reason for the quiet was the shift of election emphasis from the heavily Communist cities (where minds seem already made up) to the countryside. Out in the hill villages, living in bleak cottages and scratching a bare living from the thin soil of the peninsula, the poverty-stricken paesano was the man of the hour. His vote might tip the scales...
...pronged attack on the Iberian peninsula to divert German strength from Italy and the Balkans...