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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions of the Ministry of Corporations), S. K. followed him. In Rome he was introduced to Rome's exclusive Circolo della Caccia (Hunt Club), where Count Ciano gave most of his political dinners. Soon S. K. carried a guest card. At the Hunt Club he met Count Roberto Pinelli, member of the undersecretariat of the Ministry of War. S. K. and Pinelli discovered "a mutual enthusiasm for the writings of Thomas More," author of Utopia, 16th-Century blueprint of the society of the future. Though Pinelli wore "the founder emblem of the Fascist party . . . [S. K.] caught hints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Underground Italy | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...reports for the first time several sabotage successes by the underground, including the blowing up of the torpedo factory at the Pola naval base. But the group's sabotage was hampered by Fascist laws forbidding workers to shift jobs. The group asked S. K. if his friend Pinelli could put the necessary transfers through the war ministry. Pinelli stared out the window a while, then said yes. Soon his fine Italian hand had set off the biggest of the Matteotti's explosions: of the buried oil reservoirs at the Spezia naval base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Underground Italy | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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