Word: vittorio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was lunch with his wife, Donna Rachele, Son Vittorio, Son Bruno's widow and daughter. Then an hour of chess and strolling through the grounds, not too far from the Nazi Elite Guard or the air-raid shelter hewn from solid rock...
...among the 300 was Marshal Bado-glio's son, Mario. Another was Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 84, Italy's member of the Big Four who made the Versailles Treaty. The onetime Premier withdrew from public life in 1925, abandoned even the teaching of law when the Fascists asked an oath of loyalty in 1931. Orlando had been living quietly near the Porta Pia, just happened to be passing...
Three of southern Italy's antiroyalist parties proposed to call a ten-minute strike in Naples last week. Object: to protest once more against the British-U.S. alliance with dilapidated little King Vittorio Emanuele III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Specifcally, Italian antiFascists felt that Winston Churchill had let them down again in his recent declaration of Allied policy. Said Count Carlo Sforza : "In London they seem so busy mistrusting antiFascism that they forget . . . thousands of Fascists . . . eager to stab Britain and the U.S.A. in the back...
...Small One." To Italian democrats, King Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...
...Adriatic heel of Italy, was extended to all of these areas, with the following provisos: 1) the Italian administration, both central and local, must be by men of good faith, sympathetic to the Allies; 2) this temporary step involves no Allied commitment to the Marshal or to King Vittorio Emanuele III after the capture of Rome; 3) the Italian armistice continues, subjecting the Badoglio government to military control if necessary...