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While performing, Miss Garden possibly thought of poor Franco Alfano, composer of the piece, fumbling about his quarters in Turin, Italy; knew he was in heart-sick misery, was going blind; immediately after the performance cabled him in English and in Italian: Resurrection a great success. Congratulations and Happy New Year...
Local Censorship. The alleged attempt by the Socialist Zaniboni to assassinate Premier Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 16) was, of course, the excuse for much of this relentless clamping down upon anti-Fascist activities. News leaked through to the effect that Il Rivoluzione Liberale, noted anti-Fascist organ at Turin, had been suppressed; and at Rome a similar fate overtook the Avanti, Giustizia, Unita Cattolica and Voce Republicana, while other opposition papers such as Il Mondo and Il Risorgimento were "allowed to continue publication, although their entire issues were seized daily...
...psychological moment it was only necessary to burst in upon Zaniboni, and to cause the arrest of Capello at Turin, whither he had fled. The police specifically charged General Capello with being the liaison officer between antiFascists in Italy and antiFascists in France. The latter group, it was said, had raised 150,000 lire ($7,500.00) as a "Liberty Loan" to be spent in causing the death of Mussolini and the fall of Fascism...
...weeks ago a football match-a summer sport in Italy-was to have been held at Turin to decide the championship of Northern Italy. Unfortunately, the contending teams from Genoa and Bologna and their supporters arrived simultaneously in the city and a riot was with difficulty prevented. The game was postponed for two days. Meantime, feeling ran high, higher, most high. Insults became deadly, deadlier, most deadly. Threats became bloody, bloodier, most bloody. The Prefect, alarmed, said there would be no game this year in Turin...
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet-philosopher, arrived in Milan to tell the Italians that Europe is troubled with a lack of love, that peace is something spiritual that grows in the heart and cannot be forced by command. At Turin his arrival was anticipated with much joy, but the hopeful Romani were bitterly disappointed ; for their municipal authorities (which of course means Premier Benito Mussolini) declared that Tagore's doctrines smacked unwholesomely of Communism...