Word: rapallo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain professed no such misgivings last week, though both were skeptical of what would eventually emerge from Bonn's negotiations with the East. The French, however, were openly unhappy. Some diplomats and journalists saw a parallel to Rapallo, the Italian Riviera resort where the Germans and Russians concluded a friendship treaty in 1922. It was the Rapallo pact that opened the way for the German army to train secretly on Russian territory, an operation that continued into the '30s. Rapallo prompted Georges Clemenceau to warn: "The Germans are becoming independent again...
Died. Dorothy Gish, 70, sister of Lillian, who often teamed with the famous silent-screen star in the earliest days of motion pictures, appeared in more than 25 films, including Orphans of the Storm (1922), Madame Pompadour (1927), and numerous Broadway plays; of bronchial pneumonia; in Rapallo, Italy...
EZRA POUND Rapallo, Italy...
...almost impossible to make a story of it." Max took the role of elegant bystander, frequenting the best tables, polishing a few literary trifles, contentedly obscure in the shadow of greater men. In 1910, at 38, he married Florence Kahn, a painfully shy American actress, and left England for Rapallo, Italy. Forty-six years later, still in retirement, he died...
...Dying in Rapallo, Sir Max sought only to lift the spirits of his survivors with graceful gestures and jests. "How different," he murmured, turning away with a groan from food he could not eat, "from the sounds made by the lions at feeding time!" The widowed Max's last act was one of kindness: he married his nurse-companion to assure her title to his modest estate...