Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this kind of terrain it is almost impossible to achieve a pursuit of destruction without cavalry which can advance swiftly across country in a pursuit of interception as achieved by Field Marshal Lord Allenby [in the 1917-18 Palestine campaign] . . . General Lucian Truscott [commander, 3rd Infantry Division, Italian campaign] stated that with cavalry for pursuit, he believed he could have achieved [a faster] victory in Italy . . . The late General Patton said, "In almost any conceivable theater of operations, situations arise where the presence of horse cavalry, in a ratio of a division to an army, will be of vital moment...
...French and Italian elections produced a somber warning for the West: democratic forces have, at best, contained the Communists' popular strength in the two countries, have not substantially reduced it. Despite all the West's efforts, there were 10 million people in France and Italy who-though not all of them were die-hard Communists-were still willing to say, at the polls, that in Communism rather than in democracy lies their hope for peace and plenty...
...Communists achieved their gain after years of Marshall Plan aid to Italy, at a time when the country was probably in better economic shape than at any time in modern history, and despite the Roman Catholic Church's strong intervention for the Demo-Christian De Gasperi. Italian politicians had some explanations...
Next day both Italian and visiting critics agreed that Ulanova is a "very great ballerina." Wrote the Manchester Guardian's James Monhan: "She has the rarest sense of musical timing ... a grandeur of style and extraordinary fluency and expressiveness of arms and hands which no ballet dancer today can approach...
Long Hours. Recently, welcome word came to Italy that Ulanova would appear for a festival concert at Florence's Teatro Comunale. Into Florence, three weeks ago, came ten Russians, accompanied by the secretary of the Rome Embassy and an Italian Communist bigwig. Heading and herding the group was one Alexander Kholodilin, bearer of a jawbreaking title: Chief of the Central Delegation of the Musical Institution of the Art Committee of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers. His wards were the cream of Russian stars. Eight of them-three concert singers, two violinists, a pianist, two ballet dancers...