Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take no satisfaction in invading Italian soil. . . . But we are determined to destroy the false leaders and their doctrines, which have brought Italy to her present position. . . . The time has now come for you, the Italian people, to consult your own self-respect and your own interest and your own desire for a restoration of national dignity, security and peace. The time has come for you to decide whether Italians shall die for Mussolini and Hitler-or live for Italy and for civilization...
...rally them, not to the bound sticks of Fascist heraldry, but to "the symbols of their millenary and everlasting glory ... the Catholic faith and the monarchy of Savoy." He tried to rouse them with a prediction-which was an admission of impending defeat in Sicily: "On the sacred soil of our adored fatherland," cried he, "we shall find more favorable conditions to gain victory. . . . Italians! It is today or never more...
...Door Is Open. This was a compromise; it would probably not satisfy anyone outside the Polish Government in Exile, least of all Russia. Since its army in Britain and the Near East is Poland's greatest military and political force until Polish soil is reconquered, Sosnkowski's political influence will probably exceed that of the Premier. The Russians have been frank in their distrust of Sosnkowski...
...rallied one segment of his countrymen to Fascism's bedraggled banner. A fierce, choleric people, once given to brigandage and secret societies like the Maffia, the Sicilians did not readily take to Fascism. Italy's best haters, they have hated above all the Germans on their island soil...
...Bishop's family has roots deep in Iceland's volcanic soil and history. His grandfather was a leader in the Althing, Iceland's parliament, which dates back to 930. His father, who will be 90 in September, embraced Catholicism while attending school in Denmark. For 20 years he was Iceland's only native Catholic...