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...Street. De Gasperi did not exaggerate the danger. A factory strike in Turin duplicated the general sitdown of 1922 which ushered in Mussolini. In Milan a jobless mob beat up municipal and police officials, and in Florence rowdies cut off the telephone central. Communist-dominated strikers at Mantua set up Soviet-like cells, prevented citizens from moving about unless they had passes signed by strike leaders...
...electric kilowatt-hours in the first four months this year were one million over the same period last year; the wheat crop, six million tons, was four-fifths of the prewar average. The 1946 raw silk estimate was the highest in history. Even inventors were busy: in Milan last week an auto-plane rolled at 40 m.p.h. on a highway, then flew...
Last April he went back to Europe. In Rome he conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...
Last week the Italian city of Milan buzzed with rumors of a secret society, the "Demons," under the leadership of a "Devil's Prelate," which practised the Black Mass in lonely country houses and Milan hotel rooms. The bare fact: for at least the 15th time in five years, consecrated hosts had been stolen from a church near Milan. (Authorities believe such thefts occur frequently without being reported to the police; also, that old women and children are bribed to carry hosts out in their mouths. Valuable jeweled pyxes, in which the wafers are kept, have not been taken...
...Milan's Archbishop, Cardinal Schuster, took a grim view of the sacrilegious thefts. Said he in a pastoral letter published in the press: "There exist individuals and organized groups of people who are trying to get consecrated hosts, which they profane and use for unmentionable purposes during their meetings." In another letter he wrote: "A sect which sustains the part of Judas the Traitor is at work, and is all the more repulsive because . . . boys are abused...