Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star sopranos, Ljuba Welitch. She probably joined the German Labor Front, observed Director Rudolf Bing sadly. "You either joined or you didn't sing," he explained. Arturo Toscanini was waved in though technically he too was suspicious: during Il Duce's regime, he had led an Italian orchestra, once ran for the Italian Senate with Mussolini on the Socialist ticket in 1919. Obviously the Attorney General felt he could make an exception of Toscanini...
...daring trip by submarine from England to meet French underground agents before the North African invasion. At other times, he served as deputy to General Dwight Eisenhower, helped make the Allied deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals (it seems), publication day came to Four-Star General Mark Clark, now Chief of the Army Field Forces. In readable, relaxed prose, Clark's Calculated Risk (Harper; $5) candidly describes the clashes between commanders and Allies, assigns praise & blame with...
...Anzio, "we counted [on] the belief of the Air Force that it could 'isolate' the beachhead area ... I might as well say right here that this didn't work . . . Throughout the Italian campaign, I saw this isolation theory tried out again and again, and repeatedly the enemy moved his forces by railroad and by highway, with some difficulty to be sure, but with a great deal of effectiveness...
...Tokyo. During the Italian campaign, Almond took the bitterest personal blow of his life. His only son, Ned, 23, West Point class of '43, fighting with the 45th Division in Germany, wag killed in action. In 1944, his son-in-law, Major Thomas Taylor Galloway, 24, first husband of his daughter Margaret, had been killed while flying over France...
...personal than ideological; the historic ties of U.S. friendship held strong. Vargas swung his country to the Allied side long before it was clear that the Allies would win. He granted the U.S. air bases across Brazil's strategic northeast bulge. Later he dispatched a division to the Italian front, the only South American troops to fight overseas in World...