Word: wille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the land that he does work, Berlingieri-like most of Italy's other larger landowners-follows an ancient ruinous practice: he raises two wheat crops in succession, and turns the produce into a quick cash profit. Then he returns the land to his sheep. Berlingieri's tenants...
Said Francesco Mauri at nearby Cutro: "This land will be ours as soon as it is cleared, or we will lie dead upon it. They may kill us, but we won't leave the land."
The Call of the Hour. The civil authorities on whom Father Lombardi called last week had realized at last that action was urgent. A government law, passed three years ago, had granted Italy's peasants the right to move onto certain fallow lands-provided they first obtained permission from...
Premier de Gasperi held one of his rare press conferences, gave out reassuring figures showing Italy's rising food production. He hopefully pointed to ECA projects in Italy which are trying to educate the peasants to use their land to better purposes. At La Sila, not far from Melissa...
But until they got land, the peasants would be skeptical. Said Maria Rosa Giuliano, who lives in a windowless cavern with her nine children: "We will believe in the good things De Gasperi says when we see them. We liked him-the poor, thin man. But we have been disappointed...