Word: vittorio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of the last remnant of African empire squashed Mussolini's already crawling prestige. For "El Piccolo," King Vittorio Emanuele, who docilely hitched his destiny to Mussolini's bombast, it meant that he could no longer call himself "King-Emperor...
...ulcers or mental distress) or too busy to attend the reception for Pierre Laval in Germany (see p. 23). More likely he was too busy, for he still behaved like an aged errand,boy. He shook up his Party directorate and was reported to have fired General Vittorio Ambrosio, Army Chief of Staff, and General Ettore Bastico, Marshal of Italy and onetime Governor of Libya, for "unprincipled pacifism." His own unprincipled imperialism was given its epitaph by Sagittarius' second verse of parody...
...night sky flashed brilliantly around their ships. Inches of snow gathered inside one plane's front-gun turret. Again & again the bombers struck at Turin, which had already suffered 23 raids since Mussolini made the error of going to war. Early in the week the bombers lit King Vittorio Emanuele's Royal Arsenal with flames that licked so high that the crimson reflection shimmered on the snowy peaks of the Alps. Back again the next night, they dropped more two-ton bombs into the smoldering ruins. At week's end they returned again, to make their 26th...
...unnatural Mussolini's state of war is to the Italian people was evident after bombers had swarmed over Milan. Public outcries and wall inscriptions calling for peace led Il Duce to change governors and purge his Party leadership. When King Vittorio Emanuel and his Queen, aping Britain's monarchs, visited Milan and Turin, haggard, frightened civilians chanted, "We want peace...
Wave after wave, altogether some 200 planes, roared across the famed port. A communique admitted that near panic in a public shelter helped swell casualties to 354 killed, 3000 injured. To Genoa, pockmarked with ruins, rushed little King Vittorio Emanuele III, 72, and large Queen Elena, to bolster Italian morale...