Word: gorizia
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...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...
...idol and the King's close friend. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, greatest of Italy's surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff under Italian Commander in Chief General Diaz...