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...Sergeant Richard Harding Davis* liked Stoke-on-Trent, for all its soot. Out of all the millions of G.I.s (who, on the banks of the Meuse and the Danube, in the shadow of the Colosseum and the Taj Mahal, yearned for the corner drugstore), Davis longed only for Stoke...
Thirty-six hours after royalist General Mario Roatta became a fugitive from Rome's anti-Fascist purge (TIME, March 12), the Communist newspaper, Unita, called upon Italians to demonstrate. To Colosseum Square marched 10,000 men & women. While red flags flapped from the walls that had once looked down on other gladiators. Socialist, Actionist and Communist orators shouted: "The monarchy must fall! We will not leave the streets till a republic is proclaimed...
Howled the crowd: "Death to the King! Death to Roatta!" An angry column, some 2,000 strong, stormed out of Colosseum Square to the square before the Quirinale. Carabinieri, rifles ready, barred the way. Cried the demonstrators: "Down with the carabinieri" Stones thudded against flesh. Mounted troops pushed back the mob. A machine gun, aimed into the air, chattered ominously. In the scuffle, grenades exploded...
While Rome seethed, the Government decreed a shake-up of the police, a speedup of the purge. The Communists did a triple political somersault: 1) they announced that the slain demonstrator was not a Communist: 2) most of the Communists at the Colosseum, it was said, were not Party members, but belonged to the Movimento Communista (Communist Movement*); 3) they ordered Unità's Editor Spano to confess that he had acted not as a Party man but as an "individual...
Then he was off, by plane again, to Italy. In Rome last week, he lived at the maison mere of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (he is a member of the Order) near the Colosseum. The purpose of his trip, he said, was merely to visit Canadian troops, report to the Pope, as every bishop is required to do periodically...