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...SARDINIAN BRIGADE-Emillo Lussu-Knopf...
French Corsica lies only a few miles from Italian Sardinia. Sardinian islanders always hear the gist of the speeches Corsican Campinchi makes on his native soil, and in Rome for some time he has been rated a menace by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda who last week could only construe the navy minister's remarks as an attack on the "uncontrolled power" of Benito Mussolini. Editor Gayda recently called M. Campinchia "renegade , Corsican" whose speeches are "the nefarious ravings of a sectarian madman with criminal leanings" and who writes "filthy prose, worthy only of a meeting of drunkards...
FURTHER - Amelie Posse-Brazdová -Dutton ($3.50). Continuation of the autobiography begun in Sardinian Sideshow, recounting life in post-War Italy, meetings with Czechoslovakian Patriot Masaryk and music students in Rome; by a Swedish lady who tells it with the air of a motherly, experienced traveler sending news of the great world to the folks back home...
...pertinent oration to Sardinian troops last week Benito Mussolini reaffirmed one of his major credos: "Socalled public opinion abroad is nothing more than that of a ridiculous ninny...
...Italy was still officially neutral. Miss Posse had trouble-getting through Austria, but she got there. Then Italy declared war and Czechs, being officially Austrians (though most of them hated Austria) became enemy aliens. Authoress Posse married her Oki. followed him to exile in Sardinia, where he was interned. Sardinian Sideshow is the interesting, lively, not too personal account of the year they spent there. Not being considered at first an enemy alien herself, she made a trip to Rome and besieged the authorities in behalf of her harmless husband (a painter). Sitting in anterooms, waiting for audiences, she read...