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...Italians, Barzini...
...ITALIANS by Luigi Barzini. 352 pages. Atheneum...
Wrote Journalist Luigi Barzini in Corriere Delia Sera on the day after Ike's arrival in Rome: "We welcome this man who speaks to us with the accent of Kansas of farmers who cultivate fields of wheat as vast as seas, of pioneers who went West not long before his birth. He speaks without rhetoric before the imminent peril as he calls for 'Peace, Peace,' -but not peace for the sake of quiet or lack of principle, but peace in which free men believe...
...ready. Six, years ago, when Togliatti was shot and almost killed, the comrades momentarily showed their rough hand. They blocked 70 roads leading to Genoa, thus preventing government troops from entering the city. In Venice, they seized the radio station and broad cast false news. In an emergency, Barzini believes they could take over "all vital points"in the nation in a few hours. "In Italy, public order is maintained not so much by legal force as by the prudence of the Communists...
Strengthen the Middle. What is the defense against slow penetration? Reporter Barzini has no magic formulas. He believes in reinforcing the"state authority" and in"methodic, inflexible application of the penal and civil codes, the prosecution of illegal practices, of corruption and indulgence in our public life, the moderni- zation of bureaucracy, all that reassures a confused public that there is protection under the law, that there is no need to seek protection from the Communists...