Word: cagliari
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...which cartoonists now label Nightmare Nostrum. It was known that what was left of the Italian Navy after Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham's brilliant aerial-torpedo stab into its main base at Taranto (TIME, Nov. 25) had scuttled for a more remote hideaway, probably Cagliari on Sardinia's south coast or Naples on the mainland. Perhaps the British keepers of the western gate of Italy's prison, under Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville, would get a glimpse of and a crack of their own at the fugitives...
...jumping before the steam roller as it got under way, or simply waiting to see what was going to happen before they declared their allegiance. A strong liberal, Emilio Lussu had been an officer in the Italian Army during the War, was elected a Deputy from the province of Cagliari in Sardinia, soon found himself, apparently to his own surprise, a leader of the antiFascists in his own region...
Group Bologna, Italia, Turino, 52 men, Lowell House; Group Roma, Padova, 43 men, Dunster; Group Napoli, Perugia, 41 men, Adams House; Group Firenze, Pavia, 41 men, Leverett House; Group Pisa, Catania, 40 men, Kirkland Houses; Group Siena, Cagliari, 38 men, John Winthrop House; and Group Barl, Milano, 41 men, Eliot House...
...given power to decide national defence questions. Admiral Thaon di Revel, ex-Minister of Marine, argued that coordination and not subordination of the Navy was required in dealing with defence policies. ¶The Senate approved an appropriation of 18,000,000 lire for improvements of the port of Cagliari, capital of the Island of Sardinia...