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Last week, reported Rome's Il Messaggero, Italy's 3,000,000 Communists got a stern memorandum from headquarters outlining a "proper code of bad manners" to be observed toward visiting Americans. Items...
Composer Valentino Bucchi's measured music was a careful reflection of medieval modes. Massine, reported Rome's // Messaggero, has "knelt to the spirituality of his subject." The local clergy was, on the whole, fascinated. The next day Monsignor Luigi Piastrelli commended the perform ance from his pulpit...
...Italians, the Ukrainian campaign was a pursuit of the advancing Germans. Roman Messaggero's War Correspondent Lino Pellegrini described the difficulties of keeping up with the swift ally. "The enemy mud," he said, "is implacable to those who seek to advance at any cost, and only tractors can get over it with relative success. The distance of a few kilometers seems unobtainable. . . . Often German comrades helped my car along with their energetic arms...
Norway's gaunt Haakon VII was a king with less than half a country last week as Nazi Blitzkriegers stormed through his realm and shot up his peace-loving subjects and their stumbling allies (see p. 22). Rome's Il Messaggero hopefully reported that he was about to board a British cruiser to seek security in England...
...Rome, the Messaggero reported that the golden crown of deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, studded with 718 diamonds, had been placed on sale by a London jeweler for $2,500. "A great bargain at such a small price," exclaimed the Messaggero, "provided the diamonds are not made of glass...