Word: corfu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian Army last week scored a victory over the German Army-as might be expected, in a race. The goal was Corfu, the little Greek island at the mouth of the Adriatic, which, in their solo campaign, the Italians had pounded with bombs and been unable to take...
After the Greek surrender an Axis leaflet bombing told the Corfiotes it was time to give up. Corfu's civil, religious and military authorities conferred, decided to give themselves up to the Germans rather than the Italians. Their excellent reason: while the Germans might someday return the island to Greek control. Italy, once she had swallowed it, would never disgorge such a strategic tidbit...
...withdrawal across Albania, in which a few thousand men held Babuna Pass for several days against 35,000 Bulgarian attackers, in which King Peter I, old and sick, escaped through snow and mountains in an oxcart, and from which 125,000 out of 385,000 managed to get to Corfu, where they threw off the typhus, pulled themselves together, and promptly went off to Salonika to fight some more...
...same time Il Duce's newspapers recalled that Italy had been ejected from Corfu by the League of Nations, that Macedonia had once been a part of the Roman Empire, that the Dalmatian Coast of Yugoslavia had once belonged to the Republic of Venice. Il Duce's probable objective: to force Greece's Premier-Dictator John Metaxas and Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch to go to Rome for an "Italian Salzburg," at which Albania (as nominee for Italy) would get Dalmatia and at least a part of Epirus, Bulgaria would get a corridor to the Aegean...