Word: spalato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artur Rodzinski has had a sketchily schooled career. The son of a Polish army surgeon, he was born in Spalato on the coast of Dalmatia. When he was still a child, his family moved to Lwow, Poland, where he took a few piano lessons and got a job as head of the claque at the Opera House. But his father had cut out a soberer career than music for his son-Artur studied law at the University of Lwow...
...good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost the port of Spalato last week, but they are making the iron ring uncomfortably hot to hold...