Word: carabinieri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duce, they had seized women and children as hostages. They tried to placate the angry crowd by tossing from the top floor a man thought to be Amerigo Dumini, one of the assassins of Giacomo Matteotti, the Socialist who long ago defied clubs and castor oil. Then the carabinieri came. After several days of rifle fire and tear gas, the Fascists surrendered. The crowd cheered wildly...
When British planes arrive over Greece to bomb Nazi submarine bases, there are still hundreds of Greeks who go to the rooftops. There they cheer and sing-and spit down at the despised Italian carabinieri who shoot up at them. On March 25, Greek Independence Day, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens was piled high with flowers during the night...
...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...
When ex-Corporal Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922, Marshal Badoglio, stanch monarchist, begged for a battalion of Royal Carabinieri to "sweep away these Black Shirt upstarts." He openly opposed the Ethiopian adventure until it became his duty to finish it. Although his heart may not be in this war, he is too good a soldier not to put his best brains and best effort into...