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...five months Italy's Montesi case smoldered beneath the surface like a bog fire. Last week it burst into flame. The government was scorched, the Foreign Minister was forced to resign, and one whole stratum of Italian society was illuminated in garish light...
...program of new legislation: a self-liquidating housing scheme larger than anything previously planned in postwar Italy; a vigorous new set of tax laws, which for the first time will provide jail sentences for such blatant tax dodgers as those who shocked all Italy during the unfolding of the Montesi scandal (TIME, March...
Racing on from climax to climax in a Roman courtroom, the unfolding story of Italy's sensational Montesi affair seemed more and more to be leaving behind its protagonists: obscure young Wilma Montesi, whose dead body was found on a beach near Ostia nearly a year ago, and Silvano Muto, the editor who stood on trial for spreading "false and adulterated news" about her death. To the millions gobbling up each day's revelations of debauchery in high places, the fate of Wilma and Muto seemed of secondary importance compared to the speculations swirling about the "Marchese...
...Unità itself was jumping for joy. After winding up its 30th anniversary celebration, including circulation-building, mass meetings addressed by party brass and "medals of honor" for widows and children of devoted L'Unità workers, the paper got another circulation boost from the Wilma Montesi scandal (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beamed one of L'Unità's top executives: "L'Unità is absolutely the biggest Communist newspaper outside the People's Democracies...
...Communists along with Communist readers. Many a non-Communist buys the paper simply for its news and its full coverage of scandals, crime, sports and entertainment, and swallows a thick coating of propaganda with the news. For example, L'Unità's elaborate coverage of the Wilma Montesi scandal last week was angled to fit in with the party's battle against the government. "I don't like L'Unità's politics," said one monarchist reader, "but it is readable and clear and tells you things other papers...