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...said: "These will be the last new flags before the Nazis gain power in Germany. If the members of the present government want to maintain law and order, they must yield their place to those who alone have the will and ability to do so." Followers of Fascist Adolf announced that he was about to leave Germany for a tour of Italy, France, Britain...
Three weeks ago an unknown German plane droned in the still air above Rome showering anti-Fascist leaflets on the red tile roofs. Blue-helmeted Roman police and furious Fascists formed themselves instantly into a corps of gleaners and rushed about garnering as the leaflets fell, but the snow of propaganda was too heavy for them; thousands fell into the hands of citizens. Out at Rome's airport mechanics rushed from store rooms with loaded machine gun belts. Pursuit planes took off. The mysterious plane disappeared, has not been seen since...
Fortnight ago it was learned that the plane had belonged originally to two German aviators, that the unknown aviator was one Lauro de Bosis, Italian esthete, whose mother, the former Lillian Vernon of Syracuse, N. Y., was arrested in Rome last year as an anti-Fascist propagandist. Last week, hope for Aviator de Bosis gone, a curious document appeared in Paris. Written by young de Bosis in the expectation that he would be shot down over Italy, it was entitled: THE STORY OF MY DEATH. Excerpts...
...Rome has never been violated by anti-Fascist planes. I shall be the first, I said to myself. . . . My death, however undesired by me personally who have so many things to do, could but add to the success of my flight. All danger lies in my return flight. I shall not die before I have delivered my 400,000 leaflets and then they will be all the better recommended...
...replace Anita Colombo, able directrix of La Scala Opera in Milan who lost her job last month, partly because of her friendship with anti-Fascist Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Sept. 28), a rich Venetian and pioneer Fascist was appointed: Erardo Trentinaglia. Esteemed in Italy as a composer and conductor, Signor Trentinaglia planned first to shorten La Scala's season, cut down on novelties...