Word: vesuviuses
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Whatever hope of deliverance lies in the Italian people is quiescent, Correspondent Whitaker thinks. They accept the German occupation "with as much resignation as the eruption of Vesuvius." They are overawed by Germany's military might. But once the Germans are being defeated, they will be ready to rise, he predicts. At night, when an Italian tries to hail a passing taxi (scarce in wartime), he shouts: "Libero? [Are you free?]" In the darkness come answers from people in the street...
Four nights before, long-range R. A. F. bombers, their course beaconed by a convenient eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, had swooped on Naples and inflicted yet more damage on the remaining Italian cruisers and battleships. Report was that the Italian Fleet had fled once more, to hole up somewhere else...
...also afford some air assistance. British planes were said to be taking part in raids on Porto Edda, Tirana and Durazzo in Albania, and last week this British craft-probably carrier-based Blackburns-bombed Naples to give the Italian foot its first stings of war. The glowing crater of Vesuvius lighted the way to blacked-out Naples...
...Vesuvius is letting off very little steam. The dictators are kissing each other somewhere in Italy at this moment. God help...
...which deftly suggests the case of modern Germany, less deftly suggests comparison with the historical novels of Robert Graves (I, Claudius, et al). Spartacus' inspired strategy tied his professional opponents in knots. When bald-pated Clodius Glaber's army penned the rebels up in the crater of Vesuvius, Spartacus lowered his men by ropes over the sheer rock face of the mountain's far side, then wiped out the Roman camp in a night attack...