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...regrettable that Mr. Biddle in his otherwise admirable treatise on Mr. Justice Holmes (TIME, Jan. 4) should have seen fit to praise one of Holmes's rare public indiscretions, the rhapsodic defense of war. That was worthy of a Mussolini or the war lords of Germany and Japan...
Tresca, son of a wealthy landowner, came over from his native Italy as a steerage immigrant in 1904. He knew one Benito Mussolini, the Socialist who had told him "Tresca, you are not radical enough." For the next 38 years this rotund journalist in the oversize black hat unceasingly championed the causes of the Left. In an earlier day he belonged to the same firebrand company as Emma Goldman and the I.W.W. His voice was raised in a long array of newspapers, of which the last was Il Martello (The Hammer). He campaigned in the Pennsylvania coal fields, in Manhattan...
...Mussolini, long after his admonition to Tresca, had put the radical editor on the Fascist death list. There was belief that a Fascist agent might now have carried out the decree. But Tresca had powerful foes also in Communist ranks and among the "ex-Fascists" in this country, whose influence he bitterly fought. He was a man without a party, yet he spoke thoughts that are going through the minds of millions of his countrymen, here and in the homeland, who stand against oppression. But the disturbing thing was that Tresca's murder might have cast upon...
Tall, aristocratic Milena Pavlovitch Barilli was born in 1911 near Belgrade, began to paint when she was eleven. Her work hangs in the galleries of The Hague, Florence, Paris, Rome's Mussolini Museum. She claims that there is much of the early Slavic art in her painting, but that the average American does not recognize it. Few, however, could fail to recognize her as a painter in the grand manner...
...enclose herewith Hollywood's version of TIME'S Mussolini. The actor is Joe Devlin, New York born, of Irish antecedents. . . . WILLIAM HEBERT Samuel Goldwyn Inc. Los Angeles...