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...best Italian refugee and Italian-American brains in the U.S. last week launched in New York City a new anti-Fascist paper, Il Mondo ("An Italian Daily with American Ideals"). Even as it appeared, democracy won a dramatic victory over Fascism in the U.S. Italian-language press...
...main purpose of Il Mondo was to undercut the biggest two Italian dailies of the U.S., Il Progresso Italo-Americana and Correire d'America, owned by New York sand and gravel Tycoon Generoso Pope. For Publisher Pope has often been accused of hobnobbing with Fascist bigshots, of employing Fascists on his editorial staffs, of printing pro-American editorials in English and pro-Mussolini editorials in Italian...
...very day that Il Mondo appeared, the New York Post published on its front page an interview in which Generoso Pope declared: "The quicker Hitler and the Axis powers are destroyed the better off the world will be. And when I say Axis powers that includes Mussolini...
...will send to Italy a ship to provide free passage to the U. S. for the Italian veterans in the U. S. Army during the War. These warriors were recently made eligible for admission after the Italian quota had been filled. The ship is expected to depart for il mondo nuovo within the next two months...
...this relentless clamping down upon anti-Fascist activities. News leaked through to the effect that Il Rivoluzione Liberale, noted anti-Fascist organ at Turin, had been suppressed; and at Rome a similar fate overtook the Avanti, Giustizia, Unita Cattolica and Voce Republicana, while other opposition papers such as Il Mondo and Il Risorgimento were "allowed to continue publication, although their entire issues were seized daily...