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...Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia heard a fellow officer declare him guilty of military collaboration with the Germans during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered...
Palmira's faith was in Russia. As a girl of 17 she had heard the exciting news of Russia's October Revolution. She remembers: "We felt it was us." From then on she never wavered. When the Fascists made it a crime to praise anything Soviet, she joined the Communist underground. For 20 years of Fascist rule her hovel was a refuge for Communists fleeing Mussolini's police, but she was never caught. "In my heart of hearts I always looked to Russia," Palmira remembers. "It's been my idea of heaven all these years...
...country's largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his $8,847,988 Colonial Sand and Stone Co. Inc., Pope bought three Italian-language dailies which he merged into one. After supporting Italy's fascist regime for a dozen years, Publisher-Politico Pope repudiated Mussolini in 1941, was active in pushing the U.S.-to-Italy letter-writing campaign which helped defeat the Italian Reds in the '48 elections...
...gesture did not seem entirely devoid of a political background. During World War II, Blandino had served as an army chaplain in the Albanian, Greek and North African campaigns. In 1943 he had joined Mussolini's diehard "Salo Republic" in northern Italy. Does he now sympathize with Fascist principles? Replies Blandino: "A call went out for chaplains to administer spiritual comfort. A priest must not interest himself in politics...
Near war's end, Blandino was clapped into a Turin jail by Italian partisans, released after a year. He went to Switzerland and this year returned to Italy. He re-established contacts with ex-servicemen and chaplains of Mussolini's Republican Army and with the neo-Fascist Movimento Italiano Femminile (Italian Women's Movement), to whom he propounded his idea: revive the Mercedarian tradition for liberation of Italy's 20 war criminals convicted by Allied tribunals, and 1,600 sentenced by Italian courts. Embittered ex-servicemen, theological students, relatives of prisoners gave him support-offers...