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...sparked in 1945 by Carlo Levi, a stocky ex-physician who prefers to be known as a painter. His Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), a prizewinning bestseller, was a vivid picture of life in the starving south Italian town to which Levi was exiled by Mussolini in 1935. His second book, Of Fear and Freedom, a rambling philosophical essay on man's fate, was as diffuse and shapeless as Eboli was graceful and compact...
...Portrait of Mussolini...
...himself thinks in terms of more recent history. "Mussolini," he once said, "was the greatest man of our century, but he committed certain disastrous errors. I, who have the advantage of his precedent before me, shall follow in his footsteps but also avoid his mistakes." On the record so far, Perón has done just that. His regime has the authoritarian marks-extreme nationalism, the leader principle, an all-powerful state, a militant single party, intolerance of opposition and retention of the form of democracy without any of ts substance. But the Peróns have not yet followed...
Haile Selassie and his people well remember that the League of Nations foundered on its failure to help them against Mussolini's Fascists in 1935. Consequently, though they have not waged war outside Africa for 13 centuries, they consider it well worth while to send a contingent to Korea, where another world organization is on trial...
...Rome's Teatro Adriano, where Mussolini used to hold Blackshirt rallies, Italian Communists gathered last week for a long-delayed seventh national party congress. Peace-Red style-was the battle cry of 748 delegates and more than 1,000 special guests...