Word: gorizia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting, the one U.S. battalion in the city withdrew toward the main U.S. force at Gorizia. The New Zealanders remained, their tanks patrolling streets commanded by Yugoslav artillery. In the harbor lay three British warships...
...British been so popular with Italians. The Cabinet of aging Premier Ivanoe Bonomi issued a declaration of "deep satisfaction" that the New Zealanders were in Trieste, added a "special salute to the incontestably Italian city." From Marshal Tito's headquarters came a low answering growl: "Trieste and Gorizia . . . were, after bloody struggles, liberated by Yugoslav Army forces. . . . Certain Allied forces have, without our permission, entered [these] towns, which might have undesirable consequences unless the matter is promptly settled by mutual agreement." Cried the Yugoslav Communist paper, Naprijed, "Istria and Trieste are ours and they will remain ours...
Already aging Dr. Josip Smodlaka, Tito's Foreign Minister, had exchanged sharp words with Italy's Count Carlo Sforza over Yugoslav claims to Trieste, Istria, Gorizia, awarded to Italy after World War I (TIME...
...strategic air force, operating against enemy supply lines, continued to bomb ports both on the sending and receiving ends of Axis supply, but they also bombed and claimed to have put out of action two Italian cruisers, the Trieste and Gorizia, as they sat in La Maddalena harbor, Sardinia...
...Italians in Eritrea in 1896 and he, a lieutenant of artillery, helped save the town of Adigrat. He was credited with planning the victory of Zanzur in 1911, which wrested Libya from Turkey. His capture of Mt. Sabotino from the Austrians in 1916 led to the victory at Gorizia and won Colonel Badoglio his generalship. His Second Army was the one which cracked worst at Caporetto but this is excused by his admirers on the ground that he took over the command from a sick predecessor on a few days' notice, that the Austrian surprise attack centred...