Word: calabria
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...special duties included dropping in on his native Calabria last February with a squad of British parachutists. How much damage they were able to do with their grenades and machine guns, and how many were captured, are still military secrets. What happened to Little Fortune is not. He was arrested, recognized, tried as a traitor. According to the Rome radio last week, "somewhere near Rome" on Palm Sunday Little Fortune died facing the rifles of a Fascist firing squad...
Over the Rome radio one day last week Italians heard the terrifying news that war had reached inside the Italian coast. British parachutists armed with machine guns, hand grenades and high explosives had landed in the wild Calabria-Lucania region of Italy's instep. Though 19 had been quickly disarmed after a battle with carabinieri, some were probably still at large. All Black Shirt divisions in the zone south of Naples were mustered out in patrolling parties...
...world's. More lives were lost, more property damaged from quakes in Lisbon (1755), Calabria (1783), Sicily and Calabria (1908), Kansu Province, China (1920), Japan...
...effect on foreign opinion, Under-Secretary of State Fulvio Suvich sent a guarded apology to Stockholm. The Press was ordered to make no further reference to the affair but to whoop it up for Sub-Lieut. Tito Minniti, the captured aviator whose decapitation supposedly started the trouble. At Reggio Calabria, the grimy southern town where Minniti was born, flags were half-masted and houses draped in black. Proudly his old Calabrian father cried...
...secretaries, ONE ENTIRELY UNKNOWN TO THE GREAT MASS OF THE PUBLIC, who came back with the following report to the Duce: 'To Signor Pietro Savio. 72 years of age, born in Turin, ex-contractor, unable to work because of advanced age, now living at 25 Via Calabria, there has been communicated that the bread at 1.30 per kilo was bought by the Duce from the bakery of Antonio Menichini, at No. 78 Via Alessandria...