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Mussolini was not the only Italian whose voice last week echoed Italy's blus tery, tinseled-glory era. In bomb-scarred Milan, II Duce's good friend and admirer, Alfredo Cardinal Schuster, also tried to revive the deflated Italian ego. The 63-year-old Italian Cardinal was born in Rome, son of a Vatican Swiss Guard, whose members come from the Swiss can tons of Zurich and Lucerne...
...Milan, when official administration collapsed in the confusion of British bombing raids, Fascist administrators joined the general flight from the city. At highway crossroads, little groups of work ers stopped all passers, examined identification papers, forced Fascist Party mem bers to return and restore order...
...enemy (see col. 2). In Washington, U.S. Under Secretary Sumner Welles felt his way through labyrinthine American emotions toward a formula for a postwar world (see p. 24). In all this hullabaloo, one small voice put the problem squarely to the powers which after all must solve it. Said Milan Grol, Yugoslav Minister of Communications and liberal Serb candidate for the vacant post of Foreign Minister in the exiled government...
...Most Italians hate 1) Mussolini, 2) the 250,000 Germans quartered in Italy, 3) the British, who offset much of the enimity toward the Germans by the recent bombings of Milan, Turin, Genoa. For the Allies, the bombings have accomplished great material damage, and they have demoralized northern Italy. But the resentment against Britain is fierce, and many Italian citizens now oppose any suggestion of a negotiated peace with the British. Presumably the U.S. bombings of Naples are now having a similar effect...
...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...