Word: pescara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reds had sized up the Pescara election issues admirably. In World War II, the city's railroad station, a frequent target of Allied planes, attracted a rain of bombs that rocked Pescaresi homes. The people wanted a new station built outside the city limits; the Christian Democratic government had refused. The Reds promised to move the station...
...Communist Unitá, quick to make national political capital out of the Pescara results, crowed triumphantly: "The Front has shown itself to be an instrument capable of drawing together and organizing all Italians without difference of class. . . ." Following up their advantage, the Front pointed to other promises. Moscow favored Italian trusteeship under the U.N. for Italy's prewar African colonies; if the Front won power in the April elections, a way might be found to bring Trieste back under Italian control.* What, asked the Front, could Premier de Gasperi offer? The Front's answer: only more U.S. meddling...
Supporters of De Gasperi's Christian Democrats candidly viewed the Pescara preview as a warning of the Front's Strength. Warned Risorgimento: "A typical town . . . that represents a good crosssection of the Italian population has given almost half its vote to the Front. . . . There can be little illusion that unless something is done, the national political elections will have similar results...
...Left. The German left fell back of its own accord along the Adriatic-a necessary corollary to retreat in the west. Allied troops advanced without cost, occupied the port of Pescara, the capital of Chieti province, took over the coastal end of the lateral highway to Rome. The German left seemed to be having trouble disengaging itself for fast retreat...
Would Alexander try to by-pass and encircle Rome, or attack it directly? What was to prevent him from staging another beachhead operation north of the city? Would he develop another flanking movement far to the east, at Pescara on the Adriatic...