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...Aged (77) Marshal Emilio De Bono, a bumbler who was the first Army general to join Mussolini's "March on Rome." He was head of Government police when Italy's socialist martyr, Giacomo Matteotti, was murdered just 19 years...
...soon made contact with the antifascist underground. It consists, he reports, of two main groups-the Matteotti group and the Communist-Anarchist group. "The Matteotti is in fact a people's front, for it embraces political persuasions ranging from Social Democrats on the left over to and including the aristocracy on the right. . . . It is no longer a movement for any set of principles as much as against the regime. . . . By the time I arrived in Italy, its membership of three hundred thousand reached into Fascist circles, into the Questura, and especially into the student body of Italy...
...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...
...hampered by Fascist laws forbidding workers to shift jobs. The group asked S. K. if his friend Pinelli could put the necessary transfers through the war ministry. Pinelli stared out the window a while, then said yes. Soon his fine Italian hand had set off the biggest of the Matteotti's explosions: of the buried oil reservoirs at the Spezia naval base...
...quip of the moment was: "If England wins, we are losers; if Germany wins, we are lost." The underground Matteotti society circulated an antiFascist, anti-German newspaper. Students toyed with Rivoluzionario groups; older antiFascists were increasingly active in the Free Italy secret organization directed in the U.S. by cultured, white-bearded Count Sforza...