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Mingled with the anger of editors was the strong faith that La Prensa eventually would triumph over Perón, just as Italy's Corriere della Sera had outlived Mussolini. "La Prensa apparently has lost a battle," wrote the Portland Oregon Journal, "but the war for truth won't be won by Perón, that is certain." Said the Manchester Guardian's Acting Editor J. R. L. Anderson: "Señor Perón and his friends can stop [La Prensa's] presses for a time, but when they have been dismissed to an ugly...
Next morning the critics took their whacks in print. The Communist Unità naturally found the opera "false in conception." Carriere della Sera took a more objective look: "Menotti's music is too old-fashioned...and cannot represent the ethical problems which Menotti attempts...
Although their music didn't help festivalgoers determine where Italian music might be heading, the three composers got a hearty welcome. The critic of the conservative Corriere delta Sera labeled Communist Zafred "a more brilliant and enthusiastic Shostakovich, more harmonious and proportioned and . . . more sincere." Turchi's Concerto was "a jewel of balance, reserve and nobility." Peragallo's twelve-tone experiments were "more intelligible and ear pleasing" than most such attempts...
...week's end the Cominform's offensive seemed well slowed down. "Western democracy," commented Milan's Corriere della Sera, "is proving efficient." But Mario Scelba knew that it was probably only the first, probing phase of igso's big Red push...
Catastrophe Averted. Postwar Italy's worst parliamentary brawl ended a few minutes later, quelled by chamber ushers acting as a riot squad. "Fortunately," said Milan's moderate Corriere della Sera, "what might have been catastrophe turned into grotesquerie. But the nation is tired of grotesquerie in parliament...