Word: sicilianism
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Last week the most curious sidelight on Winston Churchill's recent trip to Italy was the revelation that Sicily was once again becoming a political football at the toe of the Italian boot. Britain was reported to be toying with Sicilian separatism, and with the idea of restoring the long-defunct kingdom of Sicily. To Sicilians, uncomfortably conscious of the rising tide of leftist political turmoil on the mainland, the idea was attractive...
...this restoration, Patton could thank his superiors, General Eisenhower and General Marshall. After Patton's hysterical slapping of two enlisted men in the Sicilian campaign, Eisenhower ordered him to make a public apology, but he did not fire him. After Patton blurted out his opinions on foreign affairs, Eisenhower put him in wraps. Shrill voice, riding breeches, starred helmet, pearl-handled pistols and all, George Patton disappeared from view...
Major General Norman T. Kirk, U.S. Army Surgeon General, went to Battle Creek, Mich, to pin the U.S.'s second highest honor on Chaplain Hoffmann, who is convalescing in Percy Jones General Hospital. He came unscathed through the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, lost his left leg and suffered severe wounds in the fighting near Cassino...
...Quartermaster. Colonel Canella had an unblemished record of 25 years in the Army, 28 letters of commendation from various superiors. No West Pointer. he started his Army career as an ROTC man at the University of Iowa, where he played such violent football that he was dubbed the "Sicilian Assassin." Three days after Pearl Harbor, he arrived at Santa Ana to start building the air base. He liked parties, told cute stories, refereed cadets' football games. Townspeople and cadets liked...
Despite such tragic losses, the effort was not wholly in vain. The airborne troops who escaped their comrades' fire helped to speed up the Sicilian campaign...