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Died. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, 74, lone Jesuit in the College of Cardinals who last April sweetly reasoned into surrender* all Axis forces in & about his Archbishopric of Genoa; of a heart attack; in Genoa...
...General [Anton] Dostler was sentenced to death [TIME, Oct. 22] because he had ordered 15 O.S.S. men shot who were caught when trying to blow up a tunnel between Genoa and La Spezia. Surely every American found the verdict satisfactory...
...mission was as risky as any the O.S.S. ever plotted. Fifteen U.S. soldiers of Italian descent were to slip ashore in rubber boats, 400 miles behind the German lines. On the main-line railway between Genoa and La Spezia, they were to blow up a tunnel which air attack had failed to seal. The mission ended in their death, March 26, 1944, before a Nazi firing squad...
...Sided Plan. In the industrial north, the dread of the average man was deepest. It was no secret that in Milan, Genoa, Turin-the centers of leftist stirrings-Communists had large stores of arms and ammunition. It was an open secret too that industrialists and large farm owners were also armed, prepared to resist any attempt of workers and peasants to take over their factories and estates. In Milan it was common talk that the Association of Industrialists and Agriculturalists had a huge "protective fund"-some 180,000,000 lire ($900,000)-and was spending it on strong-arm squads...
...Ezra Pound, Idaho-born poet-author, expatriate since 1907, a star Axis propagandist. He was arrested near Genoa...