Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ETHIOPIA, 1935. General Legion: Blockade Italy, shutting off oil. Close the Suez Canal to Italian troop ships. If necessary, bombard Genoa, Naples, Leghorn, Palermo. Captain Truman: Send American troops to Ethiopia. No blockade. No closing of the canal...
...Paris, over the hum of street traffic, a grinning gendarme yelled to a friend: "MacArthur s'en va" (MacArthur is leaving). "With all his merits," said a complacent Dutch housewife, "he was a nuisance." A veteran European diplomat snapped: "An abscess has been removed." Nodded an Italian official: "Bureaucratically, it was the correct thing to do." Milan's Corriere della Sera voiced the underlying sentiment of all: "Europe's victory against Asia in the competition for 'most important place' in general U.S. strategy." Wrote the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "A decisive act, proclaiming...
...Line. All this sounded like a stereotyped harangue of Communism anywhere. It was apparently an attempt to show that Togliatti was leading from strength-the strength of the Red world bloc-for a new Italian political and propaganda line. In place of opposition to the government, the party boss offered cooperation-at a price. "We are ready to withdraw all opposition to the government," he proclaimed, "if it will modify its foreign policy." Specifically, Togliatti demanded Italy's withdrawal from the North Atlantic defense alliance and from its support of U.N. action in Korea...
...showered Togliatti with gifts. For his adopted daughter, seven-year-old Marisa Malagoli, Genoa dockworkers gave a doll which closed its eyes and pronounced "Peace, peace." For Marisa's father himself, the Genoese donated a grey, five-passenger, 30-knot motorboat ("Fast as any boat in the Italian navy," boasted the comrades). A delegation of Red youth contributed a rowing machine, to help
Guttuso was quite happy about the Italian cinema and the Communist contribution thereto. He was disturbed, however, by the state of painting and sculpture. "We must have something that all can understand, some realism, but at the same time it must be something artistic-not anything like a Coke advertisement or the statues of the Sacred Heart...