[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

. . . [O]n May 12 the Anglo-Turkish Agreement was formally ratified by the Turkish Parliament. By means of this addition to our commitments we hoped to strengthen our position in the Mediterranean in the event of a crisis. Here was our answer to the Italian occupation of Albania. Just as the period of talking with Germany was over, so now we reached in effect the same deadlock with Italy.

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Well, your series is coming down the homestretch in the pre-WWII period. The Axis is created in ten days, and the end of August starts the bloodbath. Interesting seeing that things are not much more ominous at this point than it seems today.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Alas, the Boston teams both lost their leads this week.

[MinuteGal]

In the small article datelined "Rome", does anyone know what the "racist measures" to be "firmly carried out" were? The article states that the measures "had been inspired by biological, political and even religious necessities".

Sounds very ominious. Were these measures the beginning of Italo/fascist anti-semitism?

Leni