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Died. Dr. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 70, anti-Fascist Italian-born author (Goliath, the March of Fascism; Common Cause) and longtime (1936-48) professor of Italian literature at the University of Chicago; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Fiesole, Italy. A tireless booster of the League of Nations, he became disillusioned after its failure, decided that nothing short of true world government would work. He regarded the U.N. with pity, called it "a child growing up in an iron lung" because it was not based on the abolition of political boundaries...
...next year Malaparte fortified his status as an anti-Fascist with the publication of Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11, 1946), a gruesome collection of anecdotes about Nazi-Fascist cruelty. Kaputt was a sensational bestseller on the Continent, and made Malaparte one of Europe's leading apostles of nausea-a sort of Jean Paul Spillane...
...Librarian. Anti-Fascist Alcide de Gasperi was a regular inmate of Mussolini's prisons until, his health broken, he was let out in 1929. He spent the next 14 years in the quiet of the Vatican Library-as a clerk, filing index cards. He stretched his $80-a-month salary, on which he supported a wife and four daughters, by translating from the German at a nickel a page. Meanwhile, he kept in touch with his fellow Christian Democrats, and when Mussolini fell, a skeleton Christian party was ready. By April 1945 De Gasperi was Italy's Foreign...
...Calosso has spent most of his 56 years fighting a rear-guard action against Fascism. In 1923 Mussolini jailed him for speaking against the new order. Calosso escaped to the north, where he got a job as a schoolteacher, but, not content merely to teach, he began editing an anti-Fascist newspaper. Hearing that Mussolini's blackshirts were after him, he fled Italy...
...Calosso with a cheerful smile, "that these boys and girls should have come under the evil spell of Fascism, but I have my duty. If they tear down the place, I shall keep right on with my lectures." Now protected by a green-coated cop at the door, and anti-Fascist students who check off everyone who enters, Calosso has another 15 lectures...