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...racing motorboat skimmed into the harbor of Nice. Pressmen rushed to greet it and hailed its principal passenger as an escaped turncoat Fascist who would now reveal the truth about Mussolini. ^ They were not disappointed. General Cesare Rossi, formerly head of the Fascist Press Bureau, stepped from the motorboat and told a thrilling tale of his "escape" from Rome by motor car in the dead of night to Genoa, where he was picked up by the motorboat, chartered on behalf of a Paris newspaper which is to print his revelations...
Observers awaited with attention the important information which General Rossi can undoubtedly release at Paris, if he chooses to replace vivid sensationalism with matter of demonstrable pith...
...Public Prosecutions took the final step which liberated these men, all of whom are intimates of Premier Mussolini. Forth from 18 months of imprisonment came Giuseppe Marinelli, onetime Treasurer of the Fascist Party, and was at once appointed its General Inspector of Administration. He and his co-prisoners, Cesare Rossi and Filippo Filippelli, were lauded by the Fascist press as "heroes," and their release was touted as "a great victory for truth...
Among the politicians of the Opposition, criticism was warped by anger. The Cesare Rossi memorandum-an indictment of Mussolini for having pre-sonally incited violence, by a Fascist under arrest in connection with the Matteotti murder-was frequently invoked and similar accusations were threatened...
Minister Finzi and Commandatore Cesare Rossi, both personal friends of Benito, resigned, stating that they wished to be free to defend themselves against "libelous attacks of their enemies." Editor Filippo Filippelli of the Corriere Italiano, Fascist organ was arrested shortly after he escaped from Rome. It was known that Finzi was the moving spirit of the Corriere Italiano. There followed the arrest of 17 more Fascisti. The Opposition fulminated against the Government, declared that Finzi was a grafter...