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Another anti-Fascismo incident occurred in Northern Italy when Colonel Rossetti interrupted a Fascist meeting with cries of "Viva I'Italia libera" and "A basso il Fascismo!" He was then manhandled by the crowd, who subsequently discovered that their victim was the man who sank the Viribus Unitis (flagship of the Austrian navy) single-handed during the war. Rossetti speaking of this experience said: "I was treated by the Austrians with all the honors of war when I was their prisoner, but when I breathe the sacred word Liberta, all I get from my own countrymen is kicks...
...them all. They besieged his house, followed him wherever he went. Soon all his money was gone, all of the large fortune that he had earned from his compositions. The beggars continued their demands. When he could not give, it filled him with a sense of guilt. He sank deeper and deeper into self-accusation. He came to the idea that his whole life had been wrong. He turned against everything that formerly he had held beloved. He, priest and friend of popes, conceived this singular notion-that the Catholic Church was secretly in league with the Free Masons. That...
Colonel Rossetti, who sank the Viribus Unitis and criticised the Fascisti...
...French Sea Captain: "I tried to sight Easter Island in the South Pacific Ocean and saw nothing but water. Some people think that the island sank in the recent earthquake; others point 'out that I am a French skipper...
...Germans blew up locks on the Rhine-Hoerne canal, thus blocking an important waterway. After the French had patiently cleared away the debris, the Germans promptly sank a number of coal barges, thereby reblocking the canal...