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- Description:
- President Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat on the fall of Rome to Allied troops and the recovery measures undertaken for the people of Italy.
- Date Issued:
- 1944-06-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- From the White House, President Bush welcomes Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi for his visit on Columbus Day. Bush says he is proud of the friendship America finds in Italy, supporting the fight against "the forces of brutality and instability in the world." Berlusconi then says that he is hundred percent positive that history will see George W. Bush as a great President of the United States of America. Berlusconi remains confident that the United States and Europe "can act in a concerted and coordinated way." The Prime Minister promises to hold his strong bond with the United States, because - as he states - "I'm deeply, very grateful to the United States because the United States has saved my country and my people from Fascism, Nazism, and Communism.
- Date Issued:
- 2008-10-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Fireside Chat by President Roosevelt announcing the Armistice with Italy and the opening of the Third War Loan Drive.
- Date Issued:
- 1943-09-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Dr. Willis Dunbar explains the election process in Italy and examines some election predictions ahead of Italy's crucial 1948 election. Dunbar explains proportional representation and then describes the impact that Italian proportional representation will have on the election, noting that there are a multitude of anti-communist parties such as the Christian Democrats, but that there is only one communist party. Dunbar also cites analysts who believe that the unity of the Communist Party and the quirks in the Italian system of proportional representation will give the communists between 20 and 25 more seats in the Chamber of Deputies than would be expected from the voting totals. Dunbar goes on to explain the intricacies of the Council of Ministers, who's makeup is controlled by the Chamber of Deputies, and the problems of involving communists in the Council whether on a small scale or a large scale.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Date Issued:
- 1764-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Maps
- Description:
- Elsie Hornbacher talks about her overseas service as a teacher in Japan, Italy and Austria after World War Two. Hornbacher talks about going to Japan in 1949, her ocean voyage to Yokohama, shipboard life, riding out a typhoon, the destruction still evident in postwar Japan, Japanese culture, and how life for the Japanese gradually began to improve. Hornbacher discusses the school where she worked, the curriculum, her students, visiting Hiroshima and about the Korean War and American dependents evacuating from Korea to Japan. Hornbacher says that she was reassigned to Naples in 1952, and that the city was unsafe and controlled by the mafia. After "enduring" a year in Italy, she says that she was next sent to Austria which she found both colorful and interesting and was finally sent back to the U.S. in 1954.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-04-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Dorothy M. Harrison reads from the memoir of the late Anna Catherine Corbin, a Louisville Women's Overseas Service League member, who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War II. Corbin describes deploying as part of the 300th General Hospital unit out of Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, being shipped to North Africa on a converted ocean liner, landing at Bizerte, Tunisia and later being sent to Naples, Italy. Corbin talks about setting up a hospital in a former TB sanatorium in Naples, treating soldiers with terrible wounds, the enormous number of casualties that came from the Battle of Anzio, working 23 hour shifts and how few patient fatalities the hospital had in the face of such carnage. She says that she was shipped back to the States in August 1945 and was discharged in October 1945.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-10-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Description:
- Dr. Willis Dunbar explains the election process in Italy and examines some election predictions ahead of Italy's crucial 1948 election. Dunbar explains proportional representation and then describes the impact that Italian proportional representation will have on the election, noting that there are a multitude of anti-communist parties such as the Christian Democrats, but that there is only one communist party. Dunbar also cites analysts who believe that the unity of the Communist Party and the quirks in the Italian system of proportional representation will give the communists between 20 and 25 more seats in the Chamber of Deputies than would be expected from the voting totals. Dunbar goes on to explain the intricacies of the Council of Ministers, who's makeup is controlled by the Chamber of Deputies, and the problems of involving communists in the Council whether on a small scale or a large scale.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat on the fall of Rome to Allied troops and the recovery measures undertaken for the people of Italy.
- Date Issued:
- 1944-06-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Helene Gram Forster talks about her hospital service with the American Red Cross between June 1943 and December 1945. Forster explains why she volunteered and describes her duties as a hospital recreation worker charged with providing activities and entertainment for patients at bases in North Africa, Italy and France. Forster says that the convoy which brought her to Africa was attacked near Oran, Algeria, and describes crossing the Mediterranean to Naples and being based in a convent hospital in Caserta, Italy, living conditions in camps in Algeria and Italy, caring for allied troops from several countries, and setting up a hospital in a French cavalry school. She says she sailed on a hospital ship back to the States for her leave and then returned to unit in France aboard a mail plane which also carried one of General Eisenhower's aides with a top secret set of battle plans. Forster says that her service during the war was a special time in her life. Forster is interviewed by Edna Fonn.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-05-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project