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Mingled with the anger of editors was the strong faith that La Prensa eventually would triumph over Perón, just as Italy's Corriere della Sera had outlived Mussolini. "La Prensa apparently has lost a battle," wrote the Portland Oregon Journal, "but the war for truth won't be won by Perón, that is certain." Said the Manchester Guardian's Acting Editor J. R. L. Anderson: "Señor Perón and his friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly...
Next morning the critics took their whacks in print. The Communist Unità naturally found the opera "false in conception." Carriere della Sera took a more objective look: "Menotti's music is too old-fashioned...and cannot represent the ethical problems which Menotti attempts...
Your readers will be interested in what the Marquis Arturo della Scala, scion of one of Italy's oldest families and well-known lawyer, said to me in Rome last month . . .: ''If America wants to defend the liberty of Western Europe (and of the Western World), it can never do so by liberating Europe after a Russian occupation, but only by preventing it-by sending enough men and material...
...Politics? Last week, at the rocky island prison of Procida in the Bay of Naples, a young (33) Franciscan priest, violin-playing Blandino Della Croce, urged the revival of the Mercedarian tradition-with a mid-20th Century twist. Blandino announced that he would substitute himself for one of the 13 Italian war criminals serving terms on Procida...
...businesslike wife Gala, but he had given her a Raphaelesque pose, fixed her in a harshly geometrical composition and surrounded her with a Renaissance vocabulary of symbolic images. For example, the egg suspended from the scallop shell over her head was taken from a 15th Century Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The shell symbolized baptism, the egg, Resurrection...