Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebration. They carried red flags and sang Communist songs. At a crossroad shots rang out. According to the most coherent accounts, they were fired from machine guns by men on horseback. Ten peasants (including one woman) were killed, more than 30 injured. Next day, in the Italian Constituent Assembly, the battle was resumed...
...Communist-controlled General Confederation of Italian Labor called a general strike in protest against the Sicilian "massacre." In most cities, the strike lasted only a few hours. Nevertheless, it was a grim reminder that the Communists, through their control of Italy's trade unions, have the country's economic life by the throat. Before 50,000 workers at Rome's Basilica of Constantine, Communist Labor Leader Nazzareno Buschi cried: "The workers do not want civil war, but our enemies, and above all, the Government, must be warned...
Against the False Teachers. Then is there no hope in Italy-except Communism? Many Italian democrats still refuse to believe it. The U.S. could help, they feel, by substantial loans, by softening the peace treaty terms, and by steering clear of Italian reactionaries. What is needed, beyond this, is the kind of moral effort a biographer put into the mouth of St. Dominic. Whether Dominic actually said it or not, the words are a call to men everywhere who face the Communist threat. When papal legates (the story goes) came in splendor to help him fight the Albigensian heretics...
...Christ Stopped at Eboli (see BOOKS), Italian Author Carlo Levi tells movingly of an Italian village too tiny and remote (according to local tradition) even for the attention of the Messiah. In the messianic fervor of Italy's Communists today, however, no village is too remote. North & south where no road leads and no Christian Democrat cares to venture, the Communists are on hand to persuade, threaten or cajole with promises of worldly salvation. Last week, from Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled a revealing glimpse of the way humbler party officials work their wonders in two little towns...
...Minute to 9. Breakfast is at 8:30. The Pope likes an Italian-style breakfast of coffee with milk and toast. Since the war, he has stopped eating butter. After breakfast, he sits on in his small private dining room, running rapidly through the morning papers. When the gold Swiss watch tells him it is 8:50, he rises from the table and goes to his private study. He makes a point of ringing the bell on his desk announcing that audiences are beginning, at exactly one minute to 9. Punctually on the hour, the first Cardinal, after genuflecting...