Word: sardinia
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...Paris some 6,000 non-serious Sorbonne students paraded the streets with placards demanding "We want Vesuvius! We want Venice! Ethiopia for the Negus!" (see map). At the quiet Alsatian border town of Strasbourg, students answered Italy's demands with shouts of "We want Sicily! We want Sardinia!" and in Algiers, capital of the French colony which adjoins Tunisia, hundreds of natives joined university students and chanted "Sicily and Sardinia for France-Italy for the Negus Negusti...
...which provided special armaments appropriations of $65,000,000, a 20% increase over the regular military expenses already appropriated. Italy's Chief of Staff and Under Secretary for War, General Alberto Pariani. who has recently visited Berlin, was pointedly dispatched to inspect the defenses on the island of Sardinia, eight miles south of Corsica...
French Corsica lies only a few miles from Italian Sardinia. Sardinian islanders always hear the gist of the speeches Corsican Campinchi makes on his native soil, and in Rome for some time he has been rated a menace by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda who last week could only construe the navy minister's remarks as an attack on the "uncontrolled power" of Benito Mussolini. Editor Gayda recently called M. Campinchia "renegade , Corsican" whose speeches are "the nefarious ravings of a sectarian madman with criminal leanings" and who writes "filthy prose, worthy only of a meeting of drunkards...
...others, in order of their size: Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus...
...with the Fascist occupation of the Balearic Islands and Sardinia there has been created an effective check against the sending of French transports to Africa. In the next war, McKay emphasized, small, militarized units must move at great speed. Mussolini's forces will have little difficulty in seizing French possessions on the African coast before the republic can move troops for defense...