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...tired. Italians still salaamed to his face on screens, his name on walls, but there were certain new mental reservations in their reverence. Foreign journalists in Rome received anonymous letters: "The Italians desire the end of the dictatorship which renders impossible prosperity and peace. Viva Italia! Viva la libert...
Appeals for funds plaster their front pages. Jacques Doriot's La Liberté urgently needs 500,000 francs. Fascist Col. François de La Roque's Petit Journal, panhandling for millions, has founded a "Club of Friends of the Petit Journal" who give up cigarets or lipstick to contribute 10 francs a month. The Royalist Action Francaise, perennially broke, is still begging another 1,000,000 francs-starting a new campaign on the heels of an old one. Young L'Epoque must have 6,000,000 francs or it will close...
...when inspectors of the Sûreté Nationale (Scotland Yard) suddenly stepped in and took charge of the case. For the dead men were no mere murdered tourists but the famed exiled Italian anti-Fascist Brothers Carlo & Nello Roselli. For years in Paris they have published Giustizia e Libertá, organ of fugitive Italian liberals. To the Sûreté their killing had all the earmarks of a political murder. The bodies were found day after an article had appeared in the Roselli paper bemoaning the murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteoti by Fascists in Rome just...
...Clair (Sous les Toits de Paris, Le Million, A Nous la Libertè) and the French film industry have been almost synonymous in most people's minds since 1930, when his first important film was an international sensation. In addition to being the only important director in France, he also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke...
Abruptly into this nostalgic atmosphere strode a fine black buck from Martinique, Deputy Joseph Samuel Lagrosillière, brandishing like a club a rolled up copy of La Liberté which had cast upon him Stavisky innuendoes. Crack! and Crack! the Negro Deputy struck twice in the face with La Liberté one of its editorial writers. Deputy Desire Ferry. Smack!-Writer Ferry retorted with a punch to the jaw which sent Martinique's Lagrosillière reeling groggily, then shouted at him, "I demand satisfaction by arms...