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...brutal story of treachery unfolded at the trial. Strasserra was an authentic hero of the resistance, with an unimpeachably anti-Fascist record. Trained by the OSS at Bari, he and an aide were slipped into Genoa in mid-1944 to report German troop movements and to establish liaison with resistance groups. When he lost his radio in a Gestapo raid, he and his companion lit out for the hills. He found Devil Moranino, and assuming him to be a fellow patriot and partisan, asked Moranino to get him to Switzerland, where he would be able to re-establish contact with...
Died. Emmanuel Tsouderos, 74, who was named Premier of Greece in 1941 while Nazi invasion troops marched towards Athens; headed the government in exile in Cairo until 1944; in Genoa...
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Hungry hoodlums, homesick for the U.S.A., rallied around from Palermo, Messina, Genoa and even the island of Elba. "I wish I had been left in an American jail," one explained. "At least there I could eat and sleep at Government expense...
...nothing about his defeat on the farms. But he had to do something about his defeat in the factories. He hastily assembled the Central Committee and announced a "critical inquiry" of Communist union policy. In an attempt to check the rebellion with a show of strength, the Communists picked Genoa, where their power in the unions is almost undisputed, and succeeded in all but closing down the port...