"Leaflets over Vienna" Topic
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| vtsaogames | 22 Mar 2014 9:17 a.m. PST |
In the summer of 1918, pro-war Italian nationalist (and later Fascist) poet/playwright Gabrielle D'annunzio flew over Vienna in an observation plane escorted by 7 fighters. He dropped leaflets over Vienna urging the Austrians to throw off their Prussian overlords and make peace. Italian newspapers lionized him. He was already the most famous intellectual in Italy. If his leaflets had been printed clearly in German they might have had some influence on the Viennese. They were printed in Italian over an Italian National flag. D'annunzio later became a rival to Mussolini, who sent him into gilded retirement. Mussolini said "A bad tooth must be pulled or filled with gold". |
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