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...jail, after which he was kept under a form of "house arrest" that apparently permitted him considerable freedom. Why? II Tempo supplied the answer by publishing a facsimile of a groveling letter written by Moscatelli to the Fascist authorities in Piedmont: "I have done much wrong to the fatherland and to the Fascist regime. Today I am glad and proud to be able to declare that I, with a spontaneity beyond any suspicion and an impulse springing from soul-searching sincerity, am determined to reject those Marxist conceptions which Fascist reality has completely emptied. I know now that the corporate...
Before the Senate, Scelba made no pretense that Italians had got all they wanted. "I would fail in my duty," he said, "if I did not frankly confess that these frontier adjustments grieve us deeply." But he added triumphantly: "After ten years the flag of the fatherland will again fly over the town hall and the Church of San Guisto of Trieste." At that, the whole Senate rose to its feet, the center and right cheering, only the Communists silent. (They could not afford to oppose the universal Italian yearning to have Trieste, but neither could they stand...
...last day he arose and, as usual, looked out the window toward a hillside crucifix, then murmured: "I can't see the crucifix." A few hours later he talked with Premier Scelba in Rome. Hunched over the telephone, he said passionately: "EDC must be launched! . . . Europe and the fatherland must be saved." He turned from the telephone in tears. A few hours later he had another heart attack and then another. A priest was summoned, and Alcide de Gasperi, a devout man all his life, received the last sacrament. His daughter began to read the prayer for the dying...
...tried hard all my life to believe in this [Communist] system," Rastvorov related, "but I could not . . . After I saw with my own eyes how people live their own lives and how they get along with each other in free countries [I decided] to leave forever a fatherland which [was] a concentration camp...
...estimated $34 billion today. Profits are high, and many a businessman has made a postwar fortune. But while German output rose 50% in four years, wages have risen only 21%. German trade unions had been persuaded to accept thin pay packets as their contribution to the Fatherland's recovery, having been told that wages had to be kept low in order to regain the export markets. In addition, unemployment, fed by ten million refugees from Communism, made a man think twice before risking his job. The result was bad for all Germans: many German workers cannot afford...