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Tomasini's speech lit up switchboards all over France. Much of the reaction, he claimed, was support for his position from France's own Silent Majority. But judges, lawyers, journalists and most politicians were furious; Combat, a liberal anti-Gaullist newspaper, dubbed the Corsican-born secretary-general "Mussolini Tomasini." Angriest of all were France's students, who had already been demonstrating over what has become known as the "Guiot Affair." Lycée Student Gilles Guiot, 19, was arrested during a demonstration early last month for hitting a policeman; denied bail and access to a defense attorney...
...injured 13. The Catanzaro incident in turn set off demonstrations and rioting in Naples, Genoa and Rome, as well as a fistfight between Communist and neo-Fascist Deputies in the Italian Parliament. Despite the warnings of the Communists, the neo-Fascists have no chance of emulating Benito Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome. But they are capable of giving the country a case of the jitters. Premier Emilio Colombo declared last week that "infantile extremism" was endangering Italian democracy...
...Will They Ever Finish Bruckner Boulevard? is a collection of her Sunday articles, which are sadly often hidden among gardening and coin and stamp collection news. She does not limit her criticism to New York City but attacks "urbicide" everywhere. Washington's Mussolini-classical Rayburn Building she calls "the biggest star-spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed...
Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was a monarch of only 43 when his proud East African kingdom suffered one of the great outrages of the 20th century. While the League of Nations sat mute in Geneva in 1936, Italian troops overran the land and Benito Mussolini appeared on a Rome balcony to boast: "At last Italy has its empire...
...reconciliatory visit, but he has always demurred. One reason for his hesitancy was an 83-ft. stone obelisk that now stands in front of the headquarters of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. Italian troops stole the obelisk from the ancient Ethiopian capital at Aksum, and Mussolini had it set up in Rome. Ethiopians want it back, but the Italians have maintained that the shaft is too weak to be moved. Moreover, neo-Fascist extremists would probably raise a ruckus if Il Duce's trophy were taken away...