Word: bersaglieri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years ago the Italian Tricolor flapped proudly in a fresh sea breeze from thousands of windows and rooftops of Trieste. Quick-marching into the Piazza dell' Unità, beplumed Bersaglieri were hard put to it to clear a path through the delirious crowd of 250,000 that shook the vast square with endless roars of "Viva l'Italia! Viva Trieste Italiana!" Thus, after nine postwar years as a "free territory," the citizens of the Adriatic port city of Trieste deliriously greeted their reunion with Italy...
...paunchy but majestic figure, made his triumphant way through the cheering streets of Milan. The French Tricolor fluttered from windows; there were Arches of Triumph made out of flowers, and at least one made out of cake. At Magenta, De Gaulle inspected the 4th Regiment of the plumed Italian Bersaglieri, whose predecessors fought there a century ago. Near Solferino, he and President Gronchi lunched at a villa where Napeleon III and Victor Emmanuel gloated over a victory banquet that had been set for the Emperor of Austria, who never got around...
...away. On the morning of the great day, rain and high winds lashed the city and the harbor; swarms of impatient Italians broke through police lines and made a shambles of the dockside area; Winterton's Italian guard could not get through. Even Italy's own spruce Bersaglieri and their commander, General Edmondo de Renzi, were buffeted and disheveled by the warmth of their welcome. General Winterton decided not to wait around for a proper transfer of authority, sent his regrets and sailed away, amid taunts. The Centaur's skipper explained later that he could not delay...
...dell' Unità. By 2 in the afternoon, more than 15,000 had packed into the square, beneath two giant, freshly painted red pylons built to fly huge flags of Italy and the city. Sidewalk vendors did a brisk business in tiny flags and miniature hats of the Bersaglieri, the Italian elite troops who were the first to occupy Trieste after Austria's defeat in 1918. At three minutes after 2, a voice boomed from the city hall balcony the news the crowd had gathered to hear: in London representatives of Italy and Yugoslavia had signed the agreement...
Homeward bound for his new post as U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert B. Carney, commander of NATO forces in southern Europe, made a last inspection of the 8th Regiment of Italy's famed Bersaglieri. Remembering the strict uniform regulations of official Washington, Admiral Carney tried on, just for size, one of the flashy, droop-feathered hats of the crack sharpshooters...