Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drive III...
Parleys, Part III. General Castellano, meanwhile, had reached Rome. He quickly left again, this time for Sicily, where he met General Eisenhower's staff and the second general sent out by Marshal Badoglio. Presumably in Palermo, the parleys entered their final phase. In that city, on Aug. 29, American ack-ack gunners received startling orders. A Savoia-Marchetti bomber headed for the airfield was not to be fired on. The big plane slid down, and two Italian officers stepped out. On the 30th it took off again, escorted by three U.S. Lightnings. On the 31st it was back again...
...Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King). It was the shame of the Savoy dynasty that Vittorio Emanuele III helped Fascismo destroy the democratic constitution his grandfather had upheld...
...With pomp and prayer and the services of no priests, the body of Boris III was borne from Alexander Nevski Cathedral into Sofia's streets. Behind a cordon of troops the people watched, sullen and restrained, as the funeral cortege rolled...
...overdescribe it," sighed Archie Campbell. "After the peace the War Department will have to send troops there to drag those guys home . . . it's a soldier's dream." Less explicit, less expansive than Campbell, the Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. III, Sixth Edition, nevertheless concedes that Aitutaki's people are "hospitable and well-disposed...