Word: savoy
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...British Royal Family, was gazetted out last week with utmost respect. The stall reserved for the Italian King in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, will merely remain vacant, instead of being assigned to some other Knight of the Garter. The knightly banner of the House of Savoy was not destroyed, but placed in the same storage vault which holds that of Kaiser Wilhelm...
...hear at the moment is the sound of the air-raid siren." Calmly Murrow described the searchlights stabbing the London sky, the muted traffic, the shelter beneath St. Martin's in the Fields. He was still talking when the program moved on to the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel, where Bob Bowman described a menu that included eight hors d'oeuvres, eight different kinds of meat and game. With him was famed Chef François Latry, who remarked: "I'm very happy to say hello to my friends . . . and to tell them we are well...
Against them moved Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, a lank, leathery, 42-year-old veteran of Italy's colonial service. Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road...
...could be reinforced from Italy's total reserves at home as long as Italian transports could safely cross the Mediterranean. Water is the direst military factor in Libya. In East Africa, reinforceable only by air (because Suez would be plugged before being surrendered), Italy had one white division (Savoy Grenadiers) of 21,391 men, seven native militia legions (50,000), 70,000 white farmers and workers trained as a militia reserve. Her airplanes there, which could be added to from home, totaled only 225 frontline, 200 reserves...
...Djibouti and the Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway; 4) demilitarization for the duration of the war of the French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, Oran and Ajaccio. Regarding the surrender and demobilization of the French Army, the Italian Armistice conformed to the German. No mention was made of Nice, Savoy or Corsica, for which Italians have long clamored. So humiliating to boastful Mussolini were the small favors allowed him that the Italian press played the Armistice down, featured the continuation of war against the British Empire, promised eventual spoils...