Word: aosta
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...Savoy has stood divided by a polite but firm family feud. Last week the faction headed by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieut. General of the Realm, was enjoying a temporary upper hand over the faction represented by his 45-year-old playboy cousin, Prince Aimone di Savoia, Duke of Aosta...
...Italian Duke of Aosta, propped up by Mussolini as King Tomislav of Fascist Croatia, handed his resignation to Axis-controlled Ante Pavelich. The Duke had never visited his kingdom...
Died. Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, 43, ex-Governor General of Italian East Africa and Viceroy of Ethiopia; of tuberculosis; in Kenya Colony, East Africa. Mussolini's most ardent supporter in the House of Savoy, the tall, slim "Fascist Duke" was believed by many to have been given his African job as grooming for the Italian throne. But in Ethiopia he lost all but 17,000 of his 100,000 troops, surrendered to the British...
...friends. Month ago he asked his boss Benito ("War is the Normal State of the People") Mussolini whether he might make peace. He was ordered to continue. And so for a futile month he did his best and his men fought and died. This was the end of Aosta's young hopes...
Amadeo of Aosta stooped, laid the bare palm of his hand flat on the soil of the Empire which was no longer his to rule, stood again, and walked quickly down to the British staff car waiting...