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From Idaho he went to Mexico, then emerged in San Francisco to found the successful engineering firm of Caetani, Burch & Hershey. It was making Prince Caetani rich when the War broke, but as soon as Italy joined the Allies he rushed home to serve his State. When he reached the front on the Dolomite Alps, 10,000 Italians had lost their lives trying to capture "The Eye of the Austrian Army," an outpost on the 9,000-foot cone-shaped mountain Col di Lana. This extended so far into the Italian line that Austrian observers could spy out every Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Prince's Prince | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...mining engineer, Lieut. Caetani calmly proposed to blow off the entire mountain top. "Let's get under their seats," he said, "and blast." With 80 picked miners Prince Caetani drove a tunnel nearly half a mile long into the living rock, so quietly that the Austrians noticed nothing. Five tons of nitroglycerin were tamped into the galleries. On the night of April 17, 1916 the Engineer Prince was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Prince's Prince | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...calm. A full moon flooded the snow-capped Austrian spy peak. Thirty minutes before midnight Prince Caetani pulled the detonators. From where he stood the noise was slight. Skyward hurtled the white top of the mountain and what came down was black. With the greatest of ease Italian troops then occupied the smoking crater in which they found not even dead Austrians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Prince's Prince | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

After the War Prince Caetani was elected Mayor of Rome, refused to take office as a protest against civic corruption. Elected a Deputy, he was one of the first authentic Italian princes to rally to "The Prince," Benito Mussolini, months before the March on Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Prince's Prince | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...Duce, once established, sent Prince Caetani to Washington as Ambassador. In two years he exhausted every means of trying to make U. S. citizens see his own vision of Fascism as a regime giving Italy an imposed, Augustan and salutary peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Prince's Prince | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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