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...Rome, after sleuths of the Gendarmeria took to dressing themselves as American tourists, they had no trouble at all rounding up the Via Véneto's streetwalkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 1, 1951 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Seersucker Squad. In Rome, sleuths of the Gendarmeria took to dressing themselves as American tourists, had no trouble at all rounding up the Via Veneto's streetwalkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...Argentine Government, whose actions against the Nazis have been empty gestures but which has been carrying out a witch hunt against Communists and labor, wrote into one of last week's resolutions the distorting phrase, "Nazis, Fascists, and Communists." In an attempt to stampede the conference, the Argentine Gendarmeria Nacional made the timely "discovery" of a 9,000-member "Communist" organization in the Chaco, where any labor-organizing of the exploited semi-serfs in the quebracho camps is promptly smeared as Communist. The delegates smiled politely, remained unimpressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Democratic Demonstration | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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