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...Soccer Games. In Milan, 3,000 Red activists patrolled the gates of the huge Breda steel plant and other factories, barred workers from entering. Others stopped the city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized...
...week's end the Cominform's offensive seemed well slowed down. "Western democracy," commented Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is proving efficient." But Mario Scelba knew that it was probably only the first, probing phase of igso's big Red push...
...week, the Communist newspaper L'Unita printed his photograph upside down. It was no mistake, and with a little helpful prodding from L'Unita, most readers got the point. In 1945, after Italian Partisans executed Benito Mussolini and his mistress, they hanged the pair upside down in Milan...
...Milan, Director Vittorio De Sica was "astounded." To Joseph Burstyn, the film's U.S. distributor, he cabled: "Picture circulates successfully whole world including England without ever meeting similar demands. As to girls' house scene, critics everywhere have stressed the delicate way same is conducted ... As to [the boy's] wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form...
Catastrophe Averted. Postwar Italy's worst parliamentary brawl ended a few minutes later, quelled by chamber ushers acting as a riot squad. "Fortunately," said Milan's moderate Corriere della Sera, "what might have been catastrophe turned into grotesquerie. But the nation is tired of grotesquerie in parliament...