Word: peppino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi of Manhattan and Connecticut is the grandson and namesake ofItaly's late great Liberator and no mean soldier in his own right. In 1897, aged 17, he climbed out of a window of the Technical College at Fermo, Italy, and made off to Athens, where his father was collecting a band of Italian volunteers to fight in the Greek war against the Turks. It was then that he donned, for the first time, the Garibaldis' traditional red shirt ("because a man in a red shirt can neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being...
...head of a clan of tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved...
Four and a half years ago, when Italy attacked Ethiopia, Peppino suddenly pledged his" unconditional support to my country in its hours of need." Subsequently there were other signs that he was home sick. Last September he opposed his brother Sante's recruiting of an Italian Legion in France because he was afraid Italy might join Germany. In December, when he thought Mussolini was for the Finns, Peppino got busy organizing Sante's legion to fight in Finland. He was too late...