Word: trentino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offered to send any number of Italian Carabinieri into the Saar at once. Taking thought, Saar authorities refused this, feeling that the injection of Italian-speaking troops into this Franco-German stew would only make matters more difficult. Il Duce had another idea. The South Tyrol (except for the Trentino), and the country back of Trieste, taken from Austria after the War, still speaks mostly German. He would recruit a special force among the mountaineers who could talk back to the Saarlander but had only an academic interest in their problem. The League accepted with alacrity...
...powers in its general form. For each particular country it is no less serious. France cannot allow such an extension of the Nazi power with Germany becoming increasingly menacing every day; for Czechoslovakia it would mean encirclement on all sides; to Italy it would mean that Trentino, where a quarter of a million Germans live, would be bordered by an aggressive nation of seventy million people, the avowed purpose of which is to include all its racial members within its national frontiers...
...Zeppo for his secretary. Freedonia's collapse is only delayed by Brothers Chico and Harpo as spies for a rival principality. Groucho is engaged simultaneously in making love to and insulting the richest lady in Freedonia. He is also doing his best to foment war by abusing Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors for cutting off coat tails, cigar butts and assorted bells. Assigned to pry into the affairs of Groucho, they begin by rolling a peanut stand...
Uptown--"Farewell to Arms." A faithful version of Ernest Hemingway's story of love and war in the Trentino, with the galky Gary and the hellish Helen...