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...policy with Italy when she is faithless both as friend and foe." Yet no one took a more contemptuous view of the Italian people than Mussolini himself. One incident or another kept him boiling. "The Duce has been made furiously angry ... by the bad behavior of some farmers from Bari who were being entertained in the Party House in Munich -they even relieved themselves on the stairs. A disgusting incident, likely to lower us to an unbelievable extent in the opinion of the Germans; The Chief . . . let fly at the 'sons of slaves...
Five years ago, the police were arresting the chiefs of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.); last week, in elections involving 40% of Italy's voters, the Fascists and their monarchist cronies made the largest gains of any coalition, captured Naples (Italy's third city), Bari, Foggia, Salerno, twelve out of 31 provincial councils and 21% of the vote-and emerged as the third party in Italy...
...alliance in next month's municipal elections in southern Italy were collapsing. The monarchists, probably the third largest party in the south, were demanding as their price for joining the Demochristian alliance that the neo-Fascist M.S.I. party also be admitted. Unless De Gasperi yielded, Rome, Naples and Bari might well elect Communist mayors and councils. A Red Rome next month might mean a Red Italy next year, at the general elections. Yet De Gasperi, for all his willingness to compromise, would not compromise with Fascists. After lunch, he sat down and wrote a polemic that appeared next morning...
...Bari, on southern Italy's Adriatic coast, touring American Expatriate Josephine Baker, song and dance artist, called for amateur singers and dancers from the audience to compete for a special prize-a chocolate egg. Among those who volunteered was Federico Covella, 25. "I know only Giovinezza and can sing nothing else," he informed Miss Baker. Carefree and gracious, the mistress of ceremonies waved him on, bid the orchestra to strike up the tune...
...Gazette proved once again that Soviet truth is relative, flexible and pragmatic. Said the Literary Gazette: "It is well known that [during the war] the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time on the island of Vis, attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari, while [Soviet] Marshal Tolbukhin's armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade . . . Such are the facts of history...