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...Matteotti group publishes a thrice-weekly newspaper, Italia Libera (Free Italy) . . . in print shops changed with each issue from city to city. The Matteotti also uses three short-wave transmitters, for interregional communication, not for propaganda broadcasts. "Penetration of the regime has gone so far that one of the largest [Fascist] party organizations has become virtually a branch of the underground...
...kind of embarrassing information that Carlo continually published which very probably brought him to his death was stolen lists of daily instructions to the tightly controlled Italian press from the Propaganda Ministry. Few hours before the Roselli murders, last week in Manhattan Editor Girolamo Valenti of La Stampa Libera, also antiFascist. printed a five-month set of these instructions which he admitted came to him "from Paris...
...phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin him. She sang the difficult display-piece Sempre Libera with uncommon charm...
...harmony with the slogan printed everywhere, "Il Duce is never wrong!" Once an editor, II Duce realizes that the details of his press domination are best kept secret from countries in which journalism is still a free profession. Last week Manhattan's anti-Fascist daily La Stampa Libera was able to publish copies of a smuggled series of daily orders released to the Press of Italy last summer from the Dictator's press bureau whose head is now his handsome son-in-law. Count Galeazzo Ciano. To a Fascist the orders would seem merely right & proper...
MacDonald's judgment is that of a practical, and what is more a libera statesman. It can be trusted further than that of professional reformers, who are passing now from liquor to evolution, cosmetics, and clean books, than that of officers of the W. C. T. U. and allied organizations, who may be suspected of looking to Prohibition for their bread and butter. It is really of tremendous significance that a man who would be characterized by most of the die-hards from the rural districts as a bolshevik and so hardly more to be respected than a common theif...