Word: savoyism
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...speech ("The watchword is only one, categoric and binding: CONQUER!") Mussolini said Italy's continental objectives would be sought first. maritime ones later. This turned all eyes toward expected action on the French Riviera and Alpine border-Nice and Savoy. But last week when France gave up, all the Italians had to do was march...
France, resigned to the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, Nice and Savoy, probably a part of Flanders and most of her colonial empire, hoped only that her people would be allowed to live as Frenchmen in the rest of their well-loved country. But suppose Hitler were generous at Munich? Munich was still Munich...
...days later the whole Italian clergy sent a message to Il Duce. "May the sure victory of our arms gloriously place the Italian flag on the Holy Sepulchre, and revindicate the glory and rights of the House of Savoy, restorer of harmony amongst civilized people of Imperial and Christian Rome." Il Duce, self-styled "Protector of Islam" (which includes Palestine's Arabs), said nothing...
...food but of nonessential articles, the Board of Trade restricted by two-thirds the supply of 600 such items as brassieres, suspenders, pajamas, floral waters and pomades; hoped thereby to release factories and labor (see p. jj) for war production. At the same time, London's posh Savoy Grill served its last supper, shut up shop "for economic reasons." Only bright news to a nation sternly taking in its belt: this year's strawberry crop is "the best since William the Conqueror...
...longer was there any doubt that Italy would play a weak second fiddle to Adolf Hitler's Germany. Though Italy might take Nice and Savoy, Algeria, Tunisia and Corsica from a tottering France, Egypt from a blitzkrieged Britain, and even part of Yugoslavia and Greece, Adolf Hitler would never let Mussolini play first fiddle in Europe above the shores of the Mediterranean. One day Italy will have to settle with Germany for a port on the Adriatic. Little but fear of Germany has kept Il Duce from grabbing Dalmatia already...