Word: apulia
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...tennis court and an ancient castle, bougainvillea sprawled purple over faded garden walls. Carabinieri in tricorn hats, Italian sailors in blue woolens guarded the villa. By the grace of the U.S. and Britain, the King and the Marshal held power in four of the liberated provinces 'in Apulia, the heel of Italy.* Given power by the Allies, they were no more than puppets charged with the task of fashioning a government that would cause the Allies no trouble, and, incidentally, provide stability until all Italy is liberated...
...Calabrian peninsula and they were moving steadily northward and eastward. The British V Corps was about to take the port of Taranto, secure the lower Adriatic coast. German mines and booby traps delayed these troops, but the delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open to as many more men as the Allied commands cared to send across the Strait of Messina, and to enlarge their conquest the invaders had only to keep on marching...
...years of warfare hundreds of Italian soldiers and at least 20,000 Senussites have been killed. No less a person than little King Vittorio Emanuele's own cousin, the Duke of Apulia, harried the Senussites mightily from the sky. Last winter their ultimate fate was sealed when General Graziani cut them off from fleeing into Egypt by building a formidable barbed wire fence 180 mi. long...
...January Kufra, the Senussi stronghold, was captured. Thousands of tribesmen were forced to flee into Egypt. Italy thrilled to learn that the squadrons of planes that harried the fleeing Senussites mightily from the air were commanded by little King Vittorio Emanuele's own cousin, Amedeo Duke of Apulia (TIME...
...streets of Turin last week The Sacred Winding Sheet (also called The Holy Shroud) was borne triumphantly in a silver chest to The Chapel of the Winding Sheet in Turin cathedral. Escorting it walked Crown Prince Umberto, Crown Princess Marie Jose, Princess Mafalda, Yolanda and Bona, the Dukes of Apulia, Genoa, Spoleto, Pistoia Ancona, Bergamo and the Count of Turin...