While the bombers, southward flocking,
set Italian cities rocking,
Suddenly there came a knocking
at Il Duce's office door.
He, with fiery decision,
opened to admit a vision
An expected apparition
who had often called beforeĀ
Destiny at hand once more.
Britain's "Sagittarius" (real name Olga Katzin) has a nasty knack of rhyming world political events into their proper perspective. Her parody of Poe's The Raven was given documentation last week by events in Italy.
Bomb-panicked families in Turin brushed aside the call of destiny, left their war jobs and trudged, across Alpine snows to Savoy and the French Riviera. They...