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NATO (12 nations), meeting in Rome. The rank and brass of the North Atlantic alliance assembled in what used to be known as the Foro Mussolini, a flamboyant pile of buildings, Gargantuan statues and stone slabs commemorating Fascist triumphs. Heading the yoman U.S. delegation: three cabinet members (Acheson, Lovett and Snyder) and the nation's top ranking soldier, General Omar Bradley...
...Italy is a clerical state which strives to impede Protestant growth." Though the Protestant minority (some 100,000) are guaranteed religious freedom by the Italian constitution, old Fascist police laws are often invoked locally to prevent them from opening churches. The Italian people, says Mackay, while not hostile to Protestants, are cynical about governmental suppression of them-"As in so many other parts of the world today, the old robust liberalism is dead." _ But Protestantism is not only holding its own in Italy, "its ranks swell with new adherents...
Italy's best novelist unravels the character of a Fascist (TIME...
Marcello is sure the man is dead. As he grows up, he does his best to blot out the thought that he is a murderer and, if only latently, a homosexual. He finds two partial escapes-becoming a bureaucratic pea in the Fascist pod, and marrying a lusty girl named Giulia...
Except as a distant allegory, The Conformist leaves the larger part of Fascism unexplained. Yet, as a picture of one particular Fascist, it is a thoroughly convincing book. It is flawed somewhat by a languorous analytical style which prevents it from picking up dramatic speed, but even second-rank Moravia makes fine reading...