Word: ortona
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...stood charged with the crime of having publicly insulted the Pope. Under the 1929 Lateran Treaty between the Vatican and the Italian government, ratified in the republican constitution, insults to the reigning Pontiff are punishable by imprisonment or fine. The prosecution charged that at a 1948 electoral meeting in Ortona, Laura Diaz had said that the Pope's "hands dripped with the blood of the children of Greece and Palestine" because the Pope had not prevented wars in those countries and that "no amount of holy water could wash those hands...
...General. Some Canadian forces were finally sent to Sicily and Italy, where they distinguished themselves at Catania and Ortona. Meanwhile McNaughton had not endeared himself to the British by his struggle to keep his Canadians intact as an Army. And, being as tough as flint, whenever he encountered steely Montgomery, sparks flew. (McNaughton's Canadians called Montgomery "God Almonty...
Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...
Major Paul Triquet, who won his decoration before Ortona (TIME, March 20), spoke to 15,000 fellow French Canadians in le régiment de Hull. They had participated in the bloodless occupation of Kiska with the U.S. forces. Now, he said, it was their duty to stand by fellow Canadians overseas. General Pearkes followed up: "The work you did at Kiska made your names honored. Your experience makes you invaluable as invasion forces. Play the man's part. . . . Volunteer now [for overseas service...
...sergeant major at the start of World War II, he was a captain when the 1st Canadian Division moved to Italy. In December Captain Triquet, 80 Van Doos and six tanks were ordered to take tiny Casa Berardi, where German troops barred the road to Ortona. In the first advance towards the gun-studded stone houses, half of Triquet's men and all his officers were either killed or wounded. Said Triquet: "The only safe place is our objective." He, two sergeants and 15 men made it. There they dug in and Triquet repeated Nivelle's famed order...