Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Libertá, organ of fugitive Italian liberals. To the Sûreté their killing had all the earmarks of a political murder. The bodies were found day after an article had appeared in the Roselli paper bemoaning the murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteoti by Fascists in Rome just 13 years before...
...good friend of the brothers was Francesco Nitti, nephew of Francesco Nitti, Prime Minister of Italy, 1919-20. Uncle Nitti, a full-blooded anti-Fascist was hounded out of Rome in 1925, later went to live in Paris. It was with Nephew Nitti that Carlo escaped from his island prison. To the Süreté last week Francesco Nitti declared: "The murder of the Roselli brothers could have been committed . . . only by experts in political crime...
Some considered Carlo one of the most determined enemies of the Mussolini regime. He had preserved contact with his friends in Italy and was able to print information which the Rome Government found embarrassing." One kind of embarrassing information that Carlo continually published which very probably brought him to his death was stolen lists of daily instructions to the tightly controlled Italian press from the Propaganda Ministry. Few hours before the Roselli murders, last week in Manhattan Editor Girolamo Valenti of La Stampa Libera, also antiFascist. printed a five-month set of these instructions which he admitted came...
Excerpts : "January 11-Don't reproduce the correspondence from Rome to The Christian Science Monitor on the popularity of Minister Ciano...
...Rome last week grey Richard Aldrich, 73, died of a brain hemorrhage. To hard-bitten compositors on the New York Times his death meant no more scroogy handwriting to labor over reverently. It also meant the passing of an institution. Richard Aldrich was one of the two deans of musical criticism in the U. S. The other dean, Critic William James Henderson, 81, of the New York Sun, wrote a fine tribute to the man who had been for 40 years his friend...