Word: garibaldis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
Those who reverently place wreaths beneath Garibaldi's memorial and those who kneel before the Virgin-many citizens do both-have long lived together in drowsy tolerance. But now, the heirs of Garibaldi are tainted with Marxism...
...clock to be in the old Fascist position. No wonder. Black is the color of Fascism, and you are always dressed in black." Cried Gallo: "Red is the color of blood!" According to the minutes of the leftist recording secretary: "The priest was glib as usual." Asked he: "Was Garibaldi a Communist?" There was a general leftist cry: "Respect the color of Garibaldi's red shirts...
...days later the Columbians gathered in public again. On Atlanta's unpaved Garibaldi Street, Frank Jones, a 45-year-old Negro, was moving his family belongings into an unpainted bungalow once tenanted by whites. Columbians met him at the door, pointed to placards warning Negroes away from the neighborhood...
...crowded the narrow streets near Monte Citorio palace, waiting for the republic to be proclaimed. In the Hall of the She-Wolf sat the highest court's 13 justices, Premier de Gasperi and his cabinet, the chiefs of the armed forces and other notables, including a wisp-bearded Garibaldi Army veteran with medals of 1870 gleaming on his shirt of fireman's red. (The Sartorio mural, Italy Unified, had been shrouded: it showed republican Garibaldi shaking hands with Umberto's great-grandfather.) Because some 200,000 votes-which could not possibly alter the people's verdict...