Word: emilia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...partisans "who never surrendered the arms with which they fought the Germans" [TIME, April 19] is unfair to American and British leaders who early realized the potentialities for future trouble inherent in these Allied-sponsored guerrilla groups. Partisan disarmament was priority business for AMG in North Italy, particularly in Emilia (the eight provinces between the crest of the Apennines and the Po), whose military government I headed. The technique was interesting...
Although we were under no delusions as to the completeness of the job (for example, practically no sidearms were turned in), we did collect a total of 35,000 weapons in Emilia, in about ten such "standdown parades...
...methods are simple. Said a Communist organizer in a village near Milan last week: "Communists freed this village. It wasn't the Socialists or the priests. I am a Communist." They rely on Good Works: last fortnight, a jammed train carried 200 children from starving Naples north to Emilia; there, on Communist farms, under special care of Rita Togliatti's women, they would get four months of sun and food at Communist Party expense...
...sunrise, at midday and at dusk, church bells call to each other across the Emilian plain. In the past year anticlerical terrorists in the diocese of Reggio Emilia, near Bologna, had answered the bells by murdering five priests. Two months ago the Vatican sent to the tough district a tough bishop, Beniamino Socche...
...trial in Reggio Emilia last week Poetess Leonarda gripped the witness-stand rail with oddly delicate hands and calmly set the prosecutor right on certain details. Her deep-set dark eyes gleamed with a wild inner pride as she concluded: "I gave the copper ladle, which I used to skim the fat off the kettles, to my country, which was so badly in need of metal during the last days...