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...youthful Triestino named Antonio Skuka. Judge Tringali-Casanuova made no bones about the fact that the trial was a witch hunt. Because Italian law holds prisoners guilty until they are proved innocent, it was his job to see they were not proved innocent. According to Giornale d'ltalia, "the ability of the President [Tringali-Casanuova] who questioned him [Skuka] rigorously made him [Skuka] contradict himself...
...carried political meanings. When the Marseillaise was banned in Austria in 1840, Robert Schumann deftly quoted from it in his Patchingsschwankaus Wien (Viennese Carnival Joke). The mere name of Verdi was a slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...
...second loudest noise in Italy was tuned to the same wave length. In the Giornale d'ltalia, Fascist Loudspeaker Virginio Gayda wishfully declared that Government intervention in the North American Aviation Inc. strike forecast "civil...
...Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis it looked as if the London-Washington Axis were dealing from the bottom of the deck. An angry cry went up. The Italian radio sneered that President Roosevelt had "lowered himself" by going to meet an Ambassador. In Popolo d'ltalia Journal ist Luigi Barzini assured his countrymen that "in the crucial period of the war-not too remote-Great Britain will have received only a few thousand planes" from...
...fore again came that Fascist firebrand, Roberto Farinacci, onetime Secretary General of the Fascist Party and now editor of Regime Fascista and the monthly La Vita d'ltalia. He accused Badoglio of "frequenting salons, hunting preserves and groups which received favors from him, saying he did not favor the [Greek] undertaking." As to rising prices, Editor Farinacci demanded: "With things increasing at this rate, are wages and salaries to remain unaltered? ... Is there anyone who imagines that profiteers have disappeared while the mass of the people are submitting to limitation in their standard of living...