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...Alberto Moravia has denied ever having had any Fascist or Communist affiliations. The public record sustains his denial ... In 1950, when Milan's Corriere della Sera, Italy's most respected newspaper, sought to send Moravia to Moscow as a correspondent, the Soviet Union refused him a visa. Such an action is what one expects of the Soviet regime. It is a precedent which the U.S. Government would have been well advised not to follow...
...Rose Mary, bound for Italy, neared the British colonial port of Aden, a strange battle took place on board between two crackling wireless receivers. Over one radio, Shipowner Nicolo Rizzi from Italy ordered Captain Giuseppe Jafrate to put in at Aden. Over the other, Italian Count Ettore della Zonca, who had chartered the ship, exhorted: "Go ahead! The world is watching...
Eagle-beaked Count della Zonca, an old hand at finding oil in troubled waters, had launched his Italian Middle East Oil Co. in 1938 by buying half a million tons of oil expropriated by Mexico. When Iran expropriated the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. last year, he got busy again, signed a ten-year agreement to barter Italian manufactures for Iranian...
Only the British stood in the way. Anglo-Iranian had warned potential buyers that they would be prosecuted for dealing in stolen property. All major oil companies joined in boycotting a nation which broke its contract. But not Della Zonca. Hearing of his deal, the British protested without success to Italy, and then with success to the Rose Mary's owner...
...year-old Italian with a sure hand and a consuming desire to be a great artist. His first big exhibit in Milan three years ago drew record crowds and won wholehearted praise from Italy's usually wary critics. Wrote Leonardo Borgese in the respected Corriere della Sera: "Buttini is no fake. If he has any fault, it is that of being too good." Last week, with 114 of his pen & ink drawings on show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, U.S. gallerygoers could understand the enthusiasm...