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...blinked. To a friend troubled by Soviet tyranny he wrote: "Don't lose your spirit. Remember, liberty is not everything." Slim and younger looking than his 42 years, Antonio Giolitti bears one of Italy's biggest political names. His Liberal grandfather was five times Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism, became a Communist in 1940, organized the famed partisan Garibaldi division during the war, was badly wounded fighting in his native Piedmont mountains. Trading...
...tailed best. Gallivanting about Rome with 60 other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play the forbidden Blackshirt hymn Giovinezza, topped off his day by observing July 4 with a 2 a.m. fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke up in acrimonious confusion...
...when President Giovanni Gronchi, unable to find anyone else, coolly declared that Zoli was still Premier, "I felt," burbled Zoli into the silence, "that I had to accede to so high an authority." So ended Italy's longest political crisis (52 days) since the one that preceded Mussolini's accession to power. Said one Roman politician: "This government is not a solution to crisis, but merely a manifestation...
Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...
...June 10]. Would the Foreign Policy Association have asked in 1938: How long can the U.S. effectively attempt to bar the admission of Manchukuo to the League of Nations? Would Harper's, Atlantic and the New Republic have insisted on doing business with Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini in the name of coexistence with Fascism? Liberals would have us adopt policies toward de facto Communist states which they vehemently opposed when applied to de facto Fascist states...