Word: milan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knock on the Door. At midnight in his barracks-like study in Milan, Father "X" answered some questions about A.C., parried others. Was he the leader of the organization? Father X would neither admit nor deny it. Who was the leader? His deadpan reply: "I don't think it's generally known." Then he said...
...words-the message of Cardinal Schuster himself, who sat a few feet away tightly clasping his cross: "It is the duty of every right-thinking man to support the Government in its difficult struggle. . . . Let the Milanese be worthy followers of their patron St. Ambrose. May St. Ambrose protect Milan...
...Whose Wife Will Say . . ." A fair answer would be: probably a great deal. During Milan's disorders last month (when partisans occupied the local prefecture for a menacing 24 hours), some 200 men wearing civilian clothes bulging slightly at the hip pocket had kept guard in the streets near the Catholic daily newspaper Italia. They were members of north Italy's Catholic underground militia, Avanguardisti Cattolici-Catholic Vanguardists. Milanese called it simply...
...purely defensive, would never act save in self-defense or when called upon by the government. But Avanguardisti "eyes" were in every important factory, including the Communist-thronged industrial area of Sesto San Giovanni. Boasted an A.C. member: "No hostile truck leaves Sesto without the Catholics in Milan being alerted...
Numbers? The priest answered with a blend of military discretion and brass-hat vanity: "We have them in every important city in the north-Milan, Genoa, Turin. There we are roughly equal with the enemy. They outnumber us in Sesto San Giovanni. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at Varese . . . by 4 to 1 at Bergamo and 2 to 1 at Brescia. . . ." Milan's A.C. was not the only Catholic resistance group. In Rome (and elsewhere) Catholic youths organized and marched...