Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European government seriously considered jumping in to save Albania's independence, nor did the protests against the Rome-Berlin axis aggression seem any louder than those that accompanied the German seizure of Czecho-Slovakia last month. Clearly Albania itself was not worth fighting over...
...obliging Italian puppet, had recently shown ingratitude; 3) King Zog had been hoarding Italian loans meant to develop the country for his own private uses; 4) Prominent Albanians had pleaded with Dictator Mussolini to come over and straighten things out. Of all the Italian explanations, the best was that Rome had a "sacred right" there because Albania was subdued by Romans in 229 B.C. So, for that matter, was Britain...
...generation maintains its bias toward the extreme. Left, red-baiting will rapidly lose its place as the premier American political sport. Instead of trying to locate the root of all evil in Moscow, the Dies Committees of the future will have to orient their accusing fingers to Berlin or Rome. The "red menace" will become a mere afterthought, thrown in as a sop to a forty-three per cent minority...
...ROME--Official communiques announced today that Premier Benito Mussolini had conferred with Gen. Gaetone Gambara on a date for withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain and that Italy had given assurances of friendship to Greece --thus attacking the two principal obstacles to Anglo-Italian friendship...
Instead, therefore, of lagging behind in this noble procession, the Department of the Classics is among the leaders. Those who have discovered that the thought and the art of Greece and Rome are not antiquated but abiding, naturally are eager to explore its many relations to the history of mankind and to the world of today. There is no "querelle des anciens et des modernes" at Harvard. E. K. Rand...