Word: sardinia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recruiting slogan of the Italian Air Force. In hotels, drinking rooms, barber shops, banks, the legend was pasted above maps of the world, on which the course of the seaplane Santa Maria, captained by Commander Francesco de Pinedo ("Messenger of Italianity," "Conqueror of the Air"), was charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New Orleans, thence across the desert to Roosevelt Lake. Ariz. There careless mechanics let gasoline spill out on the water. A numskull gawper flipped a cigaret and Pouf! The seaplane Santa Maria was no more...
...Sardinia...
...Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...
...spring of 1915, Italy was still officially neutral. Miss Posse had trouble-getting through Austria, but she got there. Then Italy declared war and Czechs, being officially Austrians (though most of them hated Austria) became enemy aliens. Authoress Posse married her Oki. followed him to exile in Sardinia, where he was interned. Sardinian Sideshow is the interesting, lively, not too personal account of the year they spent there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome and besieged the authorities in behalf of her harmless husband (a painter). Sitting in anterooms, waiting...
...announcement last week of the final pacification of Libya was a matter of great concern to France. Stirred were old Franco-Italian rivalries focusing on the north coast of Africa. France's rich fertile Tunis is only 90 miles from the tip of Italy's island, Sardinia. There are more Italians living in French Tunis than in Italian Libya which is, for the most part, a barren useless land. The southern boundary of Libya has never been definitely fixed. France has avoided the question for years by insisting that since Italy could not control the territory she already...