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Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...
National Actionists in Greece went armed and carried British Army passes certifying their "confidential work." Their enemies, the hunted men of EAM, lived in peril of arrest and beatings. In Rome, the first Italian democrats to meet in parliamentary Assembly since the murder of Matteotti set themselves to restore integrity and hope to a broken nation. The withdrawal of A.M.G. from Italy was indefinitely postponed; in liberal opinion, to protect Rightists and Monarchists...
...long sealed by dictatorial censorship, but the digging has been difficult. In Italy, reports have been sharply restricted by military censorship. The ablest reports to date have come from the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, whose stories on the Ciano execution (TIME, July 10) and the Matteotti murder (TIME, Aug. 7) stirred international interest. Other political writers who have begun to clear the picture of Europe under Fascism are the U.P.'s Reynolds and Eleanor Packard, I.N.S.'s Mike Chinigo, A.P.'s Edward Kennedy, New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart. Most...
...Dumini [the actual murderer of Matteotti] is very well known to the President of the [Fascist] Council, Honorable Mussolini...
Something in a Newspaper. "Dumini entered my office with something rolled up in a newspaper [believed to have been Matteotti's bloody clothing] and asked me to find him a place where he could keep the automobile during the night." Filippelli became suspicious. It dawned on him that Gangster Dumini had used his car to commit a political murder. Filippelli was shocked and panicky. He did not yet know who the victim...