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« on: April 14, 2005, 05:37:50 PM » |
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Hitler had more respect for Mussolini that what people here credit. Hitler modeled his Beer Hall putsch on Mussolini's March on Rome, and M was included in high diplomatic meetings (M could speak four languages). Now, all of that changed after 1940, when the incompetence of the Italian army was seen before all the world.
And about foreign names: didn't Churchill say that foreign names should be spelled in a way that an Englishman can pronounce? Thus, for Churchill, the dreary Italian town was "Leghorn", not Livorno; the Soviets laid their Iron curtain from "Stettin" (not Szczecin) in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic; he would be apoplectic to see Myanmar on a map instead of his beloved "Burma"
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