Word: sardinia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gasp: "If you destroy our secret societies you kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once begin with the same drastic vigor that has proved salutary in Sicily...
Last year Sicily led Sardinia in murders by a small margin; but Sardinia completely distanced Sicily in thefts. Per 100,000 hypothetical citizens there were, in Sicily, 24 murders & 353 stealings, while in Sardinia occurred proportionately 16.2 killings and an imposing 914 thefts...
Pondering these facts, last week, seasoned travelers felt a twinge of regret that efficient, Fascist Carabinieri will now go to tidy up unspoiled, unmodernized Sardinia. Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene...
...Sardinia, as every geographer knows, is an island some nine times larger in area than Rhode Island but only a trifle more populous. It lies in midMediterranean, almost touching the smaller but more famed French island of Corsica. By a lavish freak of Nature, Sardinia has been endowed with coastal lowlands recalling Holland, dense forests, a few crags of grandeur, rich vine and olive lands, and extensive malarial swamps. To these last the people have adapted their constitutions through long generations, and are now virtually immune to malaria...
Anciently Sardinia was colonized by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans. By the House of Austria it was ceded in 1720 to the Dukes of Savoy in exchange for Sicily. Thus it is the modern seat of the ancient House of Savoy, now the reigning family of Italy...