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...TIME affirms that before 1943, I was "the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism . . ." If this perhaps were true, it would be true only until 1931, when I revolted against Fascism . . . From 1931 until the fall of Mussolini in 1943, I was arrested eleven times. In 1933, I was placed in prison and then sentenced to five years on the island concentration camp of Lipari. Freed in 1938, I still remained under police control and was put in prison as a preventive measure every time a Nazi chief visited Rome. In 1939, being sent to Ethiopia...
...Author Malaparte overlooks these facts: 1) in 1938, the Enciclopedia Italiana gave a glowing appraisal of his work (including a collection of poems dedicated to Mussolini); 2) in 1944, after Mussolini's fall, he began writing under the name of "Gianni Strozzi" for the Communist daily L'Unit a, the same year applied for, but was refused, Communist Party membership; 3) Italy's Defense Ministry, whose records show that he served as a liaison officer with Allied Headquarters, flatly denies that he had any part in organizing Italy's Army of Liberation...
Died. Count Charles de Chambrun, 77, U.S.-born great-great-grandson of Lafayette (and thus an honorary U.S. citizen), longtime (1901-36) French career diplomat; of a kidney disease; in Paris. As Ambassador to Rome during the '30s, he became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance...
Counter-Fury. Field Marshal Papagos (who fought and beat Mussolini's armies in 1940 and was imprisoned by the Nazis for two years) was angry, but not so furious as the newspapers supporting him. Said Athens' Apogevmatini: "If the United Center should gain power through Communist support, Papagos will not permit you to climb to power." At week's end Papagos had to tone down his supporters' exuberance: He would stand by the election results whatever they were, he said. Actually the Communist switch, aimed so nakedly at taking over the machinery of the middle...
...Alessandro Giunta, a great-great-great-grandson of Napoleon's brother, Lucien Bonaparte, in St. Mark's Basilica, Rome, a photographer concentrated on the bride's family and produced a memorable portrait of three tense, dry-eyed, well-dressed widows: the bride's mother, Edda Mussolini Ciano, who stood in an old II Duce pose, arms folded and jaw outjutting: the bride's two grandmothers, Rachele Mussolini and Carolina Ciano...