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...rumor which Europe's political gossips insistently repeated last week was that fat Fernando had not really tried to kill Prince Umberto at all. Fernando de Rosa is obviously, admittedly an antiFascist, might have logically shot a Fascist prince, but many an Italian has heard that no one loathes Benito Mussolini more wholeheartedly than slender aristocratic Crown Prince Umberto. Thus the shooting might conceivably have been a fake, staged by friends of H. R. H. to increase his popularity in Italy before his wedding. Fat Fernando did his best to deny all such rumors on the witness stand last week...
...Swiss-Italian border, Fascist soldiers saw the monks approaching, knew at once for whom they were searching. Important to the soldiers, dedicated to Benito Mussolini, was the fact that the lost woman was an antiFascist. They also knew that a short time before the St. Bernard monks had guided a whole party of anti-Fascist refugees to safety...
Meanwhile in Brussels' central police station detectives were learning things from the unsuccessful assassin. Speaking with difficulty through a broken jaw which he had acquired en route, the young man said that his name was Fernando di Rosa originally of Milan, Italy. An avowed antiFascist, di Rosa escaped from Italy over a year ago, crossing the French frontier on skis at night. In Paris he studied law at the Sorbonne, only leaving his little room in the Latin Quarter, to attend meetings of the Matteoti Club, a minor anti-Fascist secret society. It was at a meeting of this...
Observers were mildly amazed that any group of antiFascists could have grown so bumble-headed as to plot the assassination of Crown Prince Umberto as a blow against Fascism. For years it has been rumored that H. R. H. is the member of the Italian Royal Family most estranged from Dictator Mussolini. Most antiFascists regard the Crown Prince's name as the best one around which to rally a revolution which should "deliver" Italy, yet preserve the Throne. Commonly in antiFascist circles the tale is told that H. R. H. once sent II Duce a challenge to duel...
Sued for Annulment. Donna Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, by General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford, Conn., civil engineer, antiFascist, grandson of the famed Italian liberator; in Nyack, N. Y. Said she: "The General seeks to annul our marriage . . . it is a much finer thing . . . than the business of an ugly New York divorce." Donna Madelyn divorced her first husband in Yucatan...