Word: valores
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Cheren fell. There about 35,000 Italians had ensconced themselves on formidable ridges, against which any sort of direct assault was suicide. The Italians, besieged for seven weeks, fought with unprecedented valor-fought so hard that a British spokesman was obliged to say last week: "It must not be expected that the [British] casualties were on the same light scale as they were in North Africa." But day after day the R.A.F. bombarded from the sky and supplemented artillery in pounding the Italian positions in the mountains. In twelve days British bombers dropped 120 tons of bombs...
...Greek valor did not entirely erase Greek realism. The Greeks had their promises from the British (see p. 26); perhaps the British would put on a show at Salonika which would help. But something else which would also help would be Turkish belligerency. Last week the Greeks were reported to have asked Turkey whether belligerency were possible, and if so, how much, where, when...
...true. Decorations for military prowess and valor go back to history's dawn...
Head of the expedition was Major General Richard Nugent O'Connor, a Scot with an Irish name, who won a silver medal from the Italians for valor on the Piave Italian front in 1917. Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, Commander of the forces in Egypt, had planned this whole adventure on his flower-crowded island in the Nile at Cairo with General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Middle East, who blessed it with a ringing Order of the Day: ". . . In everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy. We are more highly...
...neutrality and goes around by the Monastir Gap (Bitolj), must pass to strike at Salonika. It is also a gateway to loannina (Yanina) and the long rough road to Athens. Pounding and pushing the Italians out of Corizza was a feat of which the strategic importance overshadowed even the valor of the men who did it. The town stands at an elevation of 2,500 ft. on the western scarp of the Morava heights. Its defense against assault from the west and north, whence Italy must try to come back or lose what remains of her sorry face, is made...