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Battleships. The Italians had started the war with six battleships, had perhaps commissioned two more since. Three had been damaged at Taranto, but two were probably repaired since. The Vittorio Veneto, which was commanded in this engagement by Chief of Staff Admiral Arturo Riccardi, was hurt again. Net: maximum, six; minimum, three...
...radical military solution" of the Mediterranean problem was apparently in its preliminary stages in the Balkans. Day after it had been announced that Germany's Naval Chief of Staff Grand Admiral Erich Raeder went to the Italian Alps to reassure Italy's Chief of Staff Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Benito Mussolini's paper Il Popolo d'Italia promised that "something very big" was coming up. The British indicated that they were giving the problem some thought...
...Serrano Suñer paid a visit to Benito Mussolini (see col. 3), which caused a bright Englishman to observe that he had never before heard of rats boarding a sinking ship. At Merano, in northern Italy, Germany's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conferred with Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Italian Chief of Naval Staff, about the sea war against Britain in the Mediterranean...
...chopping block was Admiral Domenico Cavagnari, Chief of Staff and Under Secretary of the Navy. If Albania was bad, what has happened to the Italian Fleet is horrible - whittled down in each & every encounter it has had with the British. To replace Cavagnari, Mussolini chose Admiral Arturo Riccardi, with Admiral Angelo Jacchino taking the new post of Commander of the Fleet...
From sleepy medieval Innsbruck the local Italian consul, Signer Riccardi, telephoned tempestuously last week to Rome. Austrian students, he cried, had just wrenched down the flag of Italy from its staff before his window. The vandals! The Austrian swine! They were tearing the tricolor to tatters, spitting on it, fouling it -the voice of helpless Consul Riccardi became a scream. At Rome, according to authoritative reports, Signer Mussolini himself took up his telephone and put searching questions to excited Consul Riccardi. Meanwhile the police of Innsbruck, clubbing right and left, had scattered the mob of flag snatchers after arresting eight...