Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When invective is the ammunition, Italy is quick to fire. The press accused Britain of breaking explicit agreements not to use chemical warfare. The dropping of the phosphorus calling cards was the signal, said Corriere della Sera of Milan, "of a new method of offensive to which fit reply must be given." Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia echoed ominously with a new version of the Mosaic law: "Two eyes for one, two teeth for one, and so on until they cry, 'Enough...
...pattern of bombings in Germany proper since June (extended last month to include Italy's key motor, magneto and aircraft plants at Milan and Turin, and last week to Sardinia) spreads from the Lake of Constance on the Swiss border to Kiel on the Baltic, and now as far east as Berlin (see map). Relentless, consistent, it was stepped up by last week to at least 800 planes per night, neutral observers believed, carrying a nightly total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry...
...Balkans only Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul still held out. Italy wanted him to replace Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch with Dr. Ante Pavelitch, a fugitive in Italy for plotting the assassination of King Alexander I. Germany wanted Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, who was recently released from jail after being caught in a fifth-column roundup (TIME, April 29). Whichever way Prince Paul moved, his country was doubtless in for some territorial revisions...
Waiting-for-Christmas. Before going out of action, the French joined the British in giving Italy a copious taste of air-bombing at Turin (home of Fiat motors), Milan and Venice. French cruisers and destroyers shelled the Ligurian coast (San Remo to Elba), the Italians replying with coast guns and torpedoes, claiming two destroyers struck...
After U. S. troops had returned from World War I, Webb Miller stayed behind as chief of U. P.'s Paris bureau. At the Cannes Conference in 1922 he met a stubby reporter for Milan's Popolo d'Italia...