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Magic. At Corsica the French used a neat bit of pagan lore to warn off the Italians. As the Premier was being ecstatically hailed by the fiery islanders in Ajaccio and Bastia, French warships circled the island. No Corsican-and no Italian-could have failed to get the point that this was a modern version of the old Norse magic of surrounding a spot with fire (in this case, navy steel) to keep out evil (Italians...
...Ajaccio, capital of Corsica, 30,000 demonstrators cried "Long Live France, Kill the Duce!" also before the Italian Consulate. Singing the Marseillaise as they paraded in an organized demonstration, war veterans massed in front of Corsica's imposing monument at Bastia to World War soldiers while their chief read to veterans and citizens alike an oath of allegiance to France: "With all our soul, we swear, on our glories and on the graves of our dead, to live and die French!" As one man they echoed back: "We swear...
Fortunately for him, M. Deibler's accommodations had been reserved in advance, for there was not a room to be had in Bastia. The execution at which he was to officiate was that of the most notorious, best publicized bandit in Corsica, crazed, grey-haired Andre Spada (TIME, March...
White-bearded, excitable M. Anatole Deibler, as well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Herriot, arrived in Bastia last week on professional business. With him he had his son-in-law, Andre Perrier, and a small traveling guillotine. Since 1879 the Deibler family have been guillotineurs to the French Republic...
...little opera house of the town of Bastia, Corsica, the French Government last week put on trial for 14 separate murders the most notorious of all Corsican bandits-André Spada...