Word: tresca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his Mexican years, Vidali-Contreras had an outspoken enemy in the U.S., goateed Carlo Tresca, a fearless tyranny-hater and an exiled Italian anarcho-socialist. Tresca's Italian-language weekly, Il Martello (The Hammer), publicly accused Vidali-Contreras of many acts of terrorism, and the following specific crimes: 1) the assassination in Barcelona of Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist, during the Spanish civil war; 2) the murder in Mexico of Tiña Modotti, Vidali's Communist mistress...
...Fight to the End. Had he lived, Carlo Tresca could have wielded great anti-Communist influence in postwar Italy. But on the night of Jan. 11, 1943, as he stepped from an office building into the wartime brownout of New York streets, a gunman killed him. Two days before, Tresca had told his friends: "Vidali is in town. That means there is a job to be done. I smell the stink of death." Police sought Vidali-Contreras for questioning, but could not find...
...wind was from the West, where Vidali was, Tito, like Tresca, might be able to "smell the stink of death...
...number of these enemies was perhaps baffling to those investigating Tresca's murder. Said New York's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan: "It seems at some time or other, in politics and personalities, that Tresca was 'agin everything.' " Police had one important witness, several thin leads. A pistol had been found near the murder scene, and an abandoned car. An ex-convict had been spotted entering the same car just before the murder; he was in custody and being questioned. More than 100 detectives were on the case, for among the slain man's friends...
Mussolini, long after his admonition to Tresca, had put the radical editor on the Fascist death list. There was belief that a Fascist agent might now have carried out the decree. But Tresca had powerful foes also in Communist ranks and among the "ex-Fascists" in this country, whose influence he bitterly fought. He was a man without a party, yet he spoke thoughts that are going through the minds of millions of his countrymen, here and in the homeland, who stand against oppression. But the disturbing thing was that Tresca's murder might have cast upon...