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High point of the debate came when aged (87) ex-Premier Orlando charged the Government with "a lust for servitude," thus throwing the sweltering chamber into screaming uproar. Meanwhile, Neo-Fascist Emilio Patrissi and Deputy Paolo Treves, a Saragattian Socialist, after a fistfight in the corridor, scheduled a duel the next day. Said Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "What counts most is that Italy gives a clear, honest and unreserved demonstration to walk the path of sacrifice toward a new dignity...
...Washington last week, a federal judge whacked 16 members of the leftist Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (TIME, July 7). The whacks: for Chairman Dr. Edward Barsky: six months in jail and $500 fine; for Novelist Howard Fast and nine others: three months in jail and $500 fines; for Theatrical Producer Herman Shumlin, Leverett Gleason (publisher of comic books) and three others: $500 fines and suspended three-month jail terms. The eleven sentenced to jail appealed and were freed...
...little about Mr. Steele's own background. I find half a dozen references to Steele in the index of John Roy Carlson's "Under Cover." Tracking them down, one finds the patriotic Mr. Steele being buddy-buddy with such fine un-Americans as Joseph S. Kamp, editor of a fascist sheet hailed by the Nazis, the seditionists James True and Liz Dilling, and John B. Snow, the "gentleman fascist...
...this group, Carlson wrote: "Personally I regard Snow as one of the most calculating fascist minds in America serving the interests of old guard, reactionary business men. His closest collaborators were Joseph P. Kamp, Merwin K. Hart, Cathrine Curtis, WALTER S. STEELE (editor of National Republic) and John B. Trevor of the super-patriotic American Coalition. All served the same masters and all shared in Snow's views...
...introduction to Steele, Carlson sent him a copy of his bogus anti-Semitic hate sheet, the "Christian Defender", which never failed to gain him entry into fascist circles. And sure enough, "Steele . . . received me cordially and we became quite friendly, for I know quite a few of the boys Joseph P. Kamp, for instance, with whom Steele had worked closely. And James, True and Elizabeth Dilling, and John Snow...