Word: saturnia
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...martial Mediterranean last week, strangely pacific ships were afloat. From fig-famed Smyrna on the Turkish coast, the British Llandovery Castle, brightly lighted, sailed for Egypt. In the same harbor the Italian Grandisca got up steam to sail for Italy. Into Gibraltar, unscathed, sailed the Italian Saturnia and Vulcania, sparkling with fresh white paint...
...Vulcania-Saturnia mission was larger-scale and generously unilateral. No less than 11,000 Italian civilians-men incapable of military service, women & children-marooned in East Africa when Allied troops brought Mussolini's imperial dream crashing down, were to be repatriated gradually from coastal camps. Notable was the fact that the Italian ships were headed round Africa's Cape of Good Hope...
...early, Premier Mussolini went out first to the capital ship Conte di Cavour, received the Realmleader and the King-Emperor when they came aboard. The Rex, Roma, Saturnia and eleven other Italian liners carried members of the House of Savoy, bigwigs of Germany and Italy. In one of the fastest naval getaways ever executed, the Italian fleet dashed out of the harbor with intervals of only a few seconds between each ship, got away in 25 minutes flat, each warboat dipping colors to the Conte di Cavour...
From Naples aboard the Saturnia sailed tubby Air Sergeant Bruno Mussolini, 17, trim Air Second Lieutenant Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and baby-faced Air Captain Count Nobile Galeazzo Ciano, husband of the Premier's daughter and favorite child Edda. With these kin of the Dictator doing their bit, Cabinet members were informed that they are not exempt from answering when their military classes are called, will "fight as privates" unless previous war experience entitles them to higher rank...
After a second brief service at the Cathedral and a reception by New York's Catholic Club, Cardinal MacRory embarked once more, waving a scarlet handkerchief from the deck of the Saturnia, which flew the yellow-&-white Papal flag in his honor. To the Holy Father in Rome, said he, "I will give . . . a report that will gladden his heart...