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Rome has only two afternoon newspapers: the Fascist Giornale d'Italia and the Catholic Osservatore Romano, semiofficial organ of the Holy See. When Germany invaded Poland last September, Osservatore Romano's circulation jumped from 40,000 to 130,000 during the Polish campaign, because it was the only paper in which Italians could read news from both sides. Later, Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre decided to limit his paper's circulation rather than risk making trouble (TIME. April...
...Fascist Party members were warned not to be seen in public reading the Vatican paper. Fascist editors, led by Roberto Farinacci, onetime Party secretary and Italy's No. 1 Jew-baiter, bitterly attacked the Vatican press. Cried Farinacci in his Cremona Regime Fasdsta: "Since September . . . Osservatore and the Holy See have had a common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again...
While the Fascist Party systematically tried to stir up anti-British feeling and crowds of students demonstrated in almost every Italian city, officially Italy did nothing. At a mass meeting in the Piazza Venezia to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Italian Empire, Benito Mussolini told a none too enthusiastic crowd: "After my speeches you must accustom yourself to my silence. Only facts will break...
...shed crocodile tears over 'poor Belgium' or 'poor Holland,' " wrote anonymous Commentator "Blackshirt" in Bologna's Resto del Carlino the day after Germany's new invasion began last week (see p. 22). "It is not for Fascist Italy to lament the fate that has overtaken two sanctionist countries, worm-eaten by democracy and anti-Fascism...
...British broadcasting station" on a wave length which turned out to be Hamburg. The Churchill Cabinet, predicted leading British Communists, will shortly suppress the Communist Party. The Government decreed a $1,750 penalty for the new crime of exporting from the United Kingdom copies of either Action, the British Fascist weekly, or the Communist London Daily Worker...