Word: nellos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting took place in the small hours of the morning. Communist Barbi began with elaborate politeness: "Priests are all right in a church, but their concern is with eternity, not with time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo...
Through a month of bickering testimony the stocky, jut-jawed Blackshirt, who was Mussolini's Chief of Staff and Chief of SIM (secret service), had denied all charges against him. No! no! he cried, he had not ordered the murder of Carlo and Nello Roselli, famed anti-Fascist refugees in France. That crime had been done while he was busy in Spain's civil war, in which he led the Italian flight from Guadalajara. But the prosecution brushed aside his protests, demanded his imprisonment for life. While the judges deliberated, Roatta's weak heart fluttered...