Word: stab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...songs are lacking in vitality with the exception of "Thou Swell" and "To Keep My Love Alive." In the latter, Vivienne Siegal sings 16 verses describing how she managed to burn, poison, guillotine, stab, electrocute, gas, and hang her various husbands in order "to keep my love alive...
...moonlit street in the heel of Italy a British soldier uttered a cry of pain, fell with a stab wound in his back. Angry Tommies beat through the dark village, could not find the assailant. Next day a gang of Italian youths pummeled a tipsy British soldier. Again Tommies rushed to the rescue. Shots rang out, hit some bystanders, dispersed a defiant...
...little King who had welcomed Fascism, called Benito Mussolini cousin and condoned the stab in France's back had held firm against all pressure. He had shrewdly echoed Winston Churchill's pledge of last February: When "we enter Rome ... we shall . . . review the whole Italian political position." No man could say when Rome would fall. Even then Vittorio Emanuele would keep his title, would not abdicate...
...dilapidated little King Vittorio Emanuele III and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Specifcally, Italian antiFascists felt that Winston Churchill had let them down again in his recent declaration of Allied policy. Said Count Carlo Sforza : "In London they seem so busy mistrusting antiFascism that they forget . . . thousands of Fascists . . . eager to stab Britain and the U.S.A. in the back...
...inglorious part played by the Vatican in Hitler's and Mussolini's adventures in Spain is widely known. The Vatican kept silent when Italy launched the 'stab in the back' attack on France in June, 1940. Now the Vatican preaches 'impartial love for all nations' but the fact remains that in this great historic battle of freedom-loving people against the enemy of mankind, the Vatican occupied the position of an outright accomplice of Fascism. . . . Franco is a Vatican pet and Franco's Spain is the image of the clerical states of postwar...