Word: napoleonism
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Fascist cries of "Nice!, Savoy!" in the Senate in 1938 derived from a deal made by Napoleon III and King Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia in 1859, when Napoleon promised to help liberate northern Italy from Austria in return for Nice and Savoy. The war aroused such enthusiasm throughout Italy that Napoleon ducked out of it, taking his prize, while Garibaldi and his Red Shirts conquered Sicily and Naples for Vittorio Emanuele...
...Prussia and Austria went to war, he picked Austria as the loser and attacked from the south. He was soundly trounced at Custozza, but he got Venetia in the peace settlement. When France was prostrate in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 he annexed the Papal State, which Napoleon had protected. The peninsula was at last united. Proclaimed Vittorio Emanuele: "It only remains to make our country great and happy...
...Niagara Falls, Ont., rejuvenated Russian Rejuvenator Dr. Serge Voronovr, 74, and wife Gertrude, 28, entered the U.S. for permanent residence; in Santa Barbara, high-domed, German-born Biographer Emil Ludwig (Napoleon, Roosevelt), 60, and wife re-entered from Mexico under German and South African quotas, looked forward to U.S. citizenship. Meantime, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the World's Christian Fundamentals Association plumped for the revocation of the citizenship of Albert Einstein, 62, on the ground that he is an atheist, and in Manhattan, Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe), 84, awaited Congressional action on a bill that would restore...
...Vichy surrender is described by the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin as a blow to the United States. It is a blow to the United States. ... It is in fact the most serious threat to the independence and security of the Western Hemisphere that has occurred since Napoleon III invaded Mexico on the eve of the Civil War. For by the action of the Vichy Government Hitler ... is now facing the continents of the Western Hemisphere.' Every French officer who adheres to Vichy, every French diplomat who adheres to Vichy, and every gun, ship and airplane they can command...
...almost every town in Mexico there is a Calle de Cinco de Mayo-Street of the Fifth of May-commemorating the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862. In that battle a Coxey's Army of Mexican irregulars defeated well-organized French forces of Napoleon III and postponed for a year the imposition of rococo Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. Last week a Fifth of May parade through the streets of Puebla capped the exercises. Almost 10,000 marched before Mexico's military-minded President General Manuel Avila Camacho, and the parade marked the first public appearance...