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Catcalls from the left began. Togni stood his ground. "I fought for Italy," he shouted, "when many of you Communists were serving in Mussolini's Fascist militia and in the Fascist Party." That set off a ten-minute outburst of invective. When it quieted down, Togni resumed: "I would like to know how many ex-Fascists are in your ranks. Also, I would like to know how many ex-spies of the OVRA [Mussolini's secret police] there...
...Giacomo Pellegrini, presently sitting in the Parliament as a Communist Senator, slipped into Italy from France in 1938, was caught almost immediately by the OVRA, saved his skin by offering to spy for Mussolini's police. He betrayed half a dozen underground comrades. This story was told in great detail, with names, dates, places and documentary excerpts...
...blue-water man, Morison dishes out most of his criticism to the other services. He pans Army brass for not pushing through plans to seize Rome by air after Mussolini's fall; had they done so, he says, the slogging campaign up southern Italy would not have been needed. Anzio, he thinks, was a blunder. But in general, says Morison, the Italian campaign was worth it all-unpopular like Grant's Wilderness campaign of 1864, but equally a campaign that had to be fought. Its bloody cost was more than repaid in Normandy's victories weeks later...
...largest diocese (3,000,000 Roman Catholics, including many practicing Communists); of a heart ailment; in Rome. Son of a Papal Swiss Guard, Cardinal Schuster entered a Benedictine monastery at eleven, in 1929 became (at 49) the youngest prelate in the College of Cardinals. An outspoken, early supporter of Mussolini's Fascism (he hailed the invasion of Ethiopia as a "triumph of the cross of Christ"), he was pro-Ally in World War II, in 1945 acted as intermediary in unsuccessful surrender negotiations between Mussolini and the partisans. After the war, he became a leading figure in Italy...
...Mussolini, by Paolo Monelli. A sharp likeness that makes the would-be Caesar look like a buffoon (TIME...