Word: badoglio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...questions. President Maroni: "Will you answer with something more than gestures?" Koch's voice suddenly rang out loud and firm, almost triumphant: "I was born at Benevento in south Italy 27 years ago. I was in Leghorn waiting to sail to Sardinia with the Second Grenadier Regiment when Badoglio surrendered...
Died. Marshal Enrico Caviglia, 82, onetime Italian Minister of War (1919), Senator, World War I hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary...
Ethiopia's List. Last week came word that Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, who likes to keep abreast of European developments, had also submitted (to Britain) a list of war criminals he wants returned to Ethiopia for trial. Among them: Benito Mussolini, Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning Japanese diplomats. It kept him at least outwardly calm when New Deal left-wingers shrilly accused him of appeasing Petain, Darlan, Franco and Badoglio...
...more than 650 billion lire, is still soaring. Bank notes in circulation have doubled since the Allied invasion, now stand at the fantastic high of 260 billion lire. The Allied currency contributed only a small part to this increase, which mainly came from the frantic efforts of the Badoglio-through-Bonomi Governments to keep afloat. With a Government budget of 100 billion lire and revenue of 20 billion, little more than enough to pay the interest on the national debt, the Italians have had to work the printing presses overtime...