Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first shipload of U.S. arms to reach Italy under the U.S. Military Assistance Program approached its wharf last week, Naples was prepared for anything. But when the Exilona finally tied up at the pier, nothing happened. Communist organizers called on all Italian workers to strike forthwith. Six trolleycar motormen, five bus drivers, some armament workers and a spaghetti factory obeyed. Two of the bus drivers later changed their minds...
...authorities said that Covella was a staunch Fascist who had once been sentenced to death by an Allied court; because of his youth, the sentence was commuted to 30 years. He had recently been released under a new Italian amnesty. Josephine Baker, 43, who holds the French Medal of Resistance for having helped Free French intelligence service during the war, hastily explained to the local police boss: "Believe me, sir, I thought Giovinezza was the title of a student song. I never thought he was a conspirator...
...Last week, at the rocky island prison of Procida in the Bay of Naples, a young (33) Franciscan priest, violin-playing Blandino Della Croce, urged the revival of the Mercedarian tradition-with a mid-20th Century twist. Blandino announced that he would substitute himself for one of the 13 Italian war criminals serving terms on Procida...
Near war's end, Blandino was clapped into a Turin jail by Italian partisans, released after a year. He went to Switzerland and this year returned to Italy. He re-established contacts with ex-servicemen and chaplains of Mussolini's Republican Army and with the neo-Fascist Movimento Italiano Femminile (Italian Women's Movement), to whom he propounded his idea: revive the Mercedarian tradition for liberation of Italy's 20 war criminals convicted by Allied tribunals, and 1,600 sentenced by Italian courts. Embittered ex-servicemen, theological students, relatives of prisoners gave him support-offers...
During Easter week, with valise and violin, Blandino went to Procida. There he dispatched letters to the Pope and to the Italian President, Premier and Minister of Justice, renewing his plea for legal recognition of voluntary substitutions. He slept on a cot in the same room with other prisoners, set up an altar in the reception room, commiserated with the war criminals and their visiting relatives. To newsmen he said: "Why have the Allies let big people go, and let the innocent ones who can't afford lawyers stay in jail? These people had to do as they were...