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...flight over Rome. In the following number I looked for another contribution regarding the same person. Perhaps you are not aware that Dr. de Bosis lost his life on the return flight to France. No gas was the cause, and his plane dropped into the sea somewhere near Corsica. He was known to the writer. 'Twas a big pity that he became an anti-Fascista, as his career had great promises. He will be mourned for many years...
...months ago the French Government suddenly was made to realize that the old French operettas were right: Corsica is full of bandits. The immediate occasion was when a grizzled bandit chief named Caviglioli raided the new hotels at Guagno les Bains, Corsica's latest resort, and shot dead a garage keeper from Ajaccio who had popped his head, cuckoo-clock wise, out of his window and shrilled for help (TIME, Sept...
...progressed sensitive General Fournier felt that the populace was not in favor of his expedition. Instantly dismissing the suggestion that feeling would improve if he would move out of the Cafe Napoleon and allow the natives to resume their accustomed seats, he wrote long appeals to the people of Corsica for support, inserted them in all Corsican newspapers. In particular he wanted to know the whereabouts of Corsica's "mastermind," Andre Spada, the bandit chief. His home had been raided; he had fled farther into the mountains...
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...Though most of the inhabitants speak bastard Italian, Corsica is not a colony or a dependence but a full Department of France. It sends Senators and Deputies to Paris...