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Called the "Sila Project," it is now under way in Calabria, on the heel of the Italian peninsula. In an eroded hilly region, about 40 miles wide and 100 miles deep, where three rich absentee families owned tens of thousands of acres, mostly idle or undercultivated, hundreds of impoverished peasant families are getting new land and new hope. Last week TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi saw the reform in progress at Santa Severina, a village near Crotone. His report...
Premier de Gasperi held one of his rare press conferences, gave out reassuring figures showing Italy's rising food production. He hopefully pointed to ECA projects in Italy which are trying to educate the peasants to use their land to better purposes. At La Sila, not far from Melissa, the Italian government, with ECA help, is spending 15 billion lire ($24 million) on a project to improve the land, plans to settle 20,000 peasant families there. They will be instructed in crop rotation and other modern agricultural methods, get new tools and fertilizers. The U.S. has earmarked about...
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...have hoped that, if these things are so and should Cardinal O'Connell return to Rome, his place will be taken by an able, active young priest who was once of nearby Whitman, Mass. Last week this hope was partly realized. Ap pointed to be titular Bishop of Sila and Auxiliary Bishop of Boston was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, for the past seven years the foremost U. S. prelate at the Vatican. Born 43 years ago the son of a Whitman grocer, "Frank" Spellman is recalled by at least one person - a Whitman taxicab driver - as an able baseball...