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...Covella broke into song at the top of his voice, many in the audience of 4,000 applauded loudly, though here & there some boos were audible. A front-row group of youths wearing the badge of Italy's neo-fascist M.S.I, party rose with shouts of "Bravo! Bravo" and joined in the singing of the onetime official Fascist hymn. Singer Baker looked on perplexed, then with dawning embarrassment. By the time Covella reached the final chorus-"and for Benito Mussolini, hooray, hooray, a la la"-the police had rushed from the back of the theater, stormed the stage...
...authorities said that Covella was a staunch Fascist who had once been sentenced to death by an Allied court; because of his youth, the sentence was commuted to 30 years. He had recently been released under a new Italian amnesty. Josephine Baker, 43, who holds the French Medal of Resistance for having helped Free French intelligence service during the war, hastily explained to the local police boss: "Believe me, sir, I thought Giovinezza was the title of a student song. I never thought he was a conspirator...
...Enemy Activity." Albania's Communist paper, Zeri i Popullit (Voice of the People), conceded that there had been a party purge. It scolded against "the Fascist gang in Belgrade, and, recently, the anti-party activities of Abedin Shehu . . . enemy activity inside our party...
Pietro Pasqualucci has played the grueling part of Christ several times before. Since the war, he has been out of his accountant's job, from which he was fired as a Fascist. Laura Calderozzi, also a veteran actress, and now a mother of six, again played the Virgin Mary. One of the few Communists in a major role was Moses. A few days before the play's single performance, he surprised his fellow actors by announcing that he had decided to rejoin the church...
Meanwhile 11 members of the Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee have appealed their conviction on a contempt of Congress charge, and the Committee itself waits for the Court's promised review of the legality of the Attorney General's subversive list. The Court will probably grant a review of the Bailey case, involving a woman fired for "failing" her federal loyalty check. Thus the entire program may be reviewed this term...