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...blow of all. Shamefacedly Economic Affairs Minister Eric Louw told the South African Parliament that one European black-marketeer, working through a Swiss bank and with a forged Lloyd's certificate that his bags had been inspected and approved, loaded a million bags aboard a British freighter at Genoa. When the bales were unwrapped at Durban, they proved to be full of rags. The swindler, admitted Minister Louw, got away with $700,000 of the government's money...
...this time, Vissering had studied his who's who of the Livorno waterfront. The man he picked to hire the stevedores was Dino Mariani, a stocky character who had once boxed on the Italian Olympic team and had run Genoa's waterfront until the Communists took it over and put him out of action (after a brutal thrashing by a Red goon squad...
Bitter Pill. San Marino's casino, its hotels and movie houses stood empty. The gamblers from Genoa stopped paying their rake-off to the government. The government had to borrow money to pay its employees, soon was issuing I.O.U.s instead of wages. Three hundred San Marinese applied for immigration visas to the U.S. Then the Communist government quit. Condemning the Communists' "stupid and egotistic policy," the legislature called for a new election, last week set up a bipartisan regency council to talk terms with Italy. Italy wouldn't budge...
...Communists lost 1,042 of the 1,959 communities which they had controlled, among them some of Italy's most important cities-Florence, Turin, Pisa, Genoa, Venice. Still in Communist hands: Bologna, Siena, Modena, Parma. Chiefly responsible for their defeat in the cities: Italy's new electoral law which automatically gives the majority party in a community two-thirds of the seats on the town council, instead of parceling them out proportionally as before (TIME, June...
...time most of the votes were counted in the first round of 2,735 municipalities, it was clear that the most important Communist citadels had fallen. The anti-Communist parties won control in some 800 of 1,200 communities which had been held by the Reds, among them Genoa, Venice,. Ravenna and Forli. Through their control of local governments, the Reds had been able to win friends not through ideological appeal but by doing favors on the mainstreet, grassroots level. Loss of that patronage was a severe blow to the Red political machine...