Word: tedeschi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department, puzzled the British and alarmed Communists. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced coldly that the U.S. would not follow its ally's lead and "recognize" the Badoglio Government. Communists throughout the world bowed their Red heads and took it like party members. Naples' Communist Paolo Tedeschi declared: "Perhaps the recognition embarrassed us somewhat. . . but it will neither lessen our sympathy . . . for Russian Communism nor . . . our determination to work ceaselessly for the King's removal." Count Carlo Sforza added: more appearance than reality...
...Tags, Two. The speaker thrust out a brown German field cap, its peak splashed with blood, its swastika and flying eagle half-covered with mud. "Due Tedeschi morti!" he repeated, then said in English: "We catch them coming to kill my pig. No pig for them-sons of bitch! See, we have what you call dog tags...
...remained. They were the half-crazed, grief-shocked people who welcomed the Fifth. Hysterical at deliverance from the Nazis, they bombarded the Allied soldiers with flowers, fruits, "vivas and kisses. Men and boys came out of holes, too, carrying rifles and grenades. Packs of them screaming vengeance on the Tedeschi (the Germans) swarmed through the streets, drawing their hands menacingly across their throats, firing their guns indiscriminately. Some of them were murderers and thieves whom the Germans, with diabolic humor, had released from Naples' jails before they cleared from the city. They went through the city looting. Others were...