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...Adriatic, last week struck its rig, announced that it was "renouncing the oil search and oilfields exploitation on the Italian continent." With that, the last U.S. company in Italy stopped hunting oil on the mainland, leaving a clear field to the state-owned Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (formerly the Fascist A.G.I.P.) that has grown under government pampering into a $100 million combine with a stranglehold on Italy's oil and natural gas. Four years ago, after spending some $10 million to find oil in the Po Valley...
...believed, American-style, in small profits and big turnovers. Said he: "I prefer to make one lira cutting costs rather than five by raising prices." But where Donegani's business acumen triumphed, his political instincts failed. A Fascist member of Parliament as early as 1921 and onetime president of the National Fascist Federation of Industries, Donegani was arrested by the Allies in 1945. He died two years later, a broken...
Last June round-faced, sharp-minded U Nu retired at his own request as Premier of Burma. His Anti-Fascist League won 170 out of 250 seats in the April election, but the Communists had picked up 40 seats, and U Nu sees no excuse for Communists. He asked for one year to reorganize and revitalize the league. Last week the Burmese government announced that U Nu was resuming his job forthwith-six months ahead of schedule. Interim Premier U Ba Swe will become one of three deputy Premiers...
Writing "In Praise of Dissent" in the New York Times Book Review, ex-Librarian of Congress Archibald Mac-Leish, now a Harvard professor of literature, tipped his mortarboard-with reservations-to Fascist-embracing Poet Ezra Pound and his eleven latest Cantos, composed in the Washington hospital where Pound has spent eleven years as a mental patient, adjudged unfit to be tried for treason in 1945. MacLeish freely admits: "Some of his dissents have been merely strident: his raging at Roosevelt throughout the Cantos sounds as though it had been composed by Fulton Lewis Jr., and his attacks on Churchill...
...politicians, some of his most memorable cartoons are as bit ter as his memories of Nazi persecution. Under a moving sketch of hollow-eyed Hungarian children and sorrowing old women, Vicky (whose parents were Hungarians) last month used as his punch line a quote from Soviet-controlled Radio Budapest: "Fascist and reactionary elements have been crushed...