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When the trial began in Milan, Journalist Guareschi turned out to have a very poor case. He could not produce the purported original of the letter (it was in the hands of a shadowy, last-ditch Fascist living in Switzerland, who has had little luck in many attempts to peddle such letters to Italian journalists) De Gasperi's lawyers flourished a communication from Viscount Alexander, the Allies' wartime commander in Italy, who said "all that is written in the alleged letter does not agree with what I remember." They also produced a communication from the supposed recipient, Lieut...
...Notebook. Next day the German Communist radio blandly announced that Trushnovich, "a leading personality of the fascist White Guard organization, NTS, which works on orders from the American secret service" had come to East Berlin and turned himself over to Communist authorities, bringing with him "documents" proving his espionage activities (NTS said he brought no papers, but unfortunately was carrying a notebook listing names and addresses of NTS contacts...
...Italy's Chamber of Deputies casually inquired of Premier Mario Scelba if he "intends to ask the U.S. Government for an act of clemency" in behalf of the pixilated U.S. poet, Ezra (Pisan Cantos) Pound, 68. After more than 30 years as an expatriate. Pound began spouting the Fascist line for Mussolini in World War II broadcasts from Rome and Milan. But it was hard to define just what might constitute "clemency" for Pound. In 1945 he escaped trial for treason because he was adjudged insane, and has since whiled away his declining years translating Confucius in a Washington...
...example, print their official newspaper, L'Unità, in a government-controlled printing plant. Pietro Nenni's Red-affiliated Socialists were the first to get specific eviction notes. They were told they had three months to vacate their Milan headquarters, a building where Mussolini founded his Fascist fighting squads...
...NEWS), he was summarily turned down. The consulate informed him that he could only get a "traveler's permit" that would allow him to return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington, a Communist Party member since 1934, thus faces the choice of staying behind the Iron Curtain or going back to Britain and staying there. Though the London Worker screamed in Page One headlines that the refusal to give Winnington a passport...