Word: trentino
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...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...
Emanuel Madruzzo, "Cardinal and Archbishop of Trent and Secular Prince of the Trentino" had "a suite of 500 gentlemen splendidly attired in rich and bizarre liveries" and "squandered his wealth, since in him the race [of Madruzzo] would be extinguished and the principality left without an heir...
England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...