Word: sardinians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SARDINIAN BRIGADE-Emillo Lussu-Knopf...
Unfortunately for the Italians, their best-known World War novel is Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. These studiously underwritten reminiscences of an Italian ex-army officer (now in exile) show that not every Italian campaign had its Caporetto. Sardinian Brigade does not discredit the bravery of Italian fighters; it only shows that Italian fighting and opera bouffe were often closely related...
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...
FURTHER - Amelie Posse-Brazdová -Dutton ($3.50). Continuation of the autobiography begun in Sardinian Sideshow, recounting life in post-War Italy, meetings with Czechoslovakian Patriot Masaryk and music students in Rome; by a Swedish lady who tells it with the air of a motherly, experienced traveler sending news of the great world to the folks back home...
...pertinent oration to Sardinian troops last week Benito Mussolini reaffirmed one of his major credos: "Socalled public opinion abroad is nothing more than that of a ridiculous ninny...