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Originally Posted by beppe
Buongiorno Elena,
this can be best solved by the most distinguished HarryT who threw this stone in the pond.
I imagine that it has to do with War Schools, or by the passion for playing poker or by excessive drinking (see Hemingway).
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Or perhaps it was simply because Italy was on the Allied side in WWI, and the "High Command" was primarily English-speaking. I don't know - that's just a guess, but it seems plausible.