World War: BALKAN THEATRE: You Just Retreat

Athenians and Londoners danced a new step last week, the “Tuscana.” C. L. (“Lambeth Walk”) Heimann and Lyric Writer Eric Maschwitz created the new “Wop Trot,” named for the “Wolves of Tuscany.” Basic movement: one step forward, two back. Chorus:

Won’t you try the Tuscana. . . .

It’s just the cutest dance,

Because you don’t advance,

You just retreat.

On the ragged Albanian battle front, wherever the Italians tried to push forward, the Greeks pushed them a little farther back. In every sector they wiped out the few gains General Ugo Cavallero had made in a month.

The best the unhappy Italians could claim for their week’s work was the first night raid on Piraeus, which Athens wrote off as negligible. Nevertheless, eying the week’s round of Axis conferences (see p. 28), the Greeks well knew that Italy might bring weapons which Greek arms could not beat.