Word: popolo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stirred to rapture by the week's events was Turin's Gazzetta dee Popolo...
Lots of people write nice letters to eye-some, earsome, young Cinemactress Deanna Durbin, some of them pretty big shots too. But last week she got fan mail from the biggest shot south of Berchtesgaden. Benito Mussolini's own Popolo d'Italia wrote and published a tender little note...
...apparently in its preliminary stages in the Balkans. Day after it had been announced that Germany's Naval Chief of Staff Grand Admiral Erich Raeder went to the Italian Alps to reassure Italy's Chief of Staff Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Benito Mussolini's paper Il Popolo d'Italia promised that "something very big" was coming up. The British indicated that they were giving the problem some thought...
...Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis it looked as if the London-Washington Axis were dealing from the bottom of the deck. An angry cry went up. The Italian radio sneered that President Roosevelt had "lowered himself" by going to meet an Ambassador. In Popolo d'ltalia Journal ist Luigi Barzini assured his countrymen that "in the crucial period of the war-not too remote-Great Britain will have received only a few thousand planes" from...
Against this opposition zealous Fascists demanded violence. "This war has assumed all the characteristics of a political and social revolution," wrote Popolo di Roma, proposing "some beatings-up" for those who read the French-language Swiss press. "These are the prophets of disaster, the professional alarmists, the convinced pessimists, the empty brains and the sour stomachs who still exist among us here and there." Referring to Benito Mussolini's recent order to jettison "the remaining petty bourgeois ballast," Popolo di Roma suggested that nothing remained but to begin...