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Novelist Baron's soldiers belonged to a company of battle-worn British infantrymen who had fought their way across the Sicilian plain in the summer of 1943 and reached the seaport town of Catania, in the shadow of Mt. Etna. There they commandeered a tenement building and settled down to rest...
...swarthy, black-haired law student of 25, Antonio Pallante lived in Catania in Sicily, an ancient hotbed of violence. Communism, he decided, was the enemy of Italy, and Togliatti was the head and heart of Italian Communism. "I could not bear the thought that he, an Italian, attended meetings of the Cominform," explained Pallante later. Being obsessed, he did not realize that Communism would exploit the martyrdom of Togliatti...
Pallante got some money from his father, a retired forester, saying that he needed it for examination fees at the University of Catania. For 3,500 lire (about $6) he bought a .38 pistol and five cartridges. Then he took a train to Rome, and there rented a room in a cheap boardinghouse. He went to the Monte Citorio Palace, where Italy's Parliament meets, and asked for a visitor's card from a Sicilian delegate, Francisco Turnaturi. (Later Turnaturi denied that he knew Pallante. "When he insisted he came from Randazzo, a place where I had many...
...Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm. Aboard were a crew of four and 21 passengers, all Swedish pilots and mechanics homebound after delivering in Addis Ababa 16 surplus Swedish light bombers for Emperor Haile Selassie's tiny but growing air force...
...General. Some Canadian forces were finally sent to Sicily and Italy, where they distinguished themselves at Catania and Ortona. Meanwhile McNaughton had not endeared himself to the British by his struggle to keep his Canadians intact as an Army. And, being as tough as flint, whenever he encountered steely Montgomery, sparks flew. (McNaughton's Canadians called Montgomery "God Almonty...