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...story behind the battle began with attempts by the House group to question Shapley about the activities of the CIO and National citizens Political Action Committees, the independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, particularly in regard to the recent election contest between Joseph Martin and Martha Sharp...
...blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA shipments because of U.S. strikes; resentment at the cutting of Italian forests by Allied occupation authorities. All of these contributed to Italian disillusionment with democracy and to the growth of an underground neo-Fascist organization which, rumor says, is headed by Augusto Turati, former Fascist party secretary...
What the publisher's jacket fails to tell about Author Malaparte is exactly what a reader should know to get a straight line on Kaputt. Curzio Malaparte, born near Florence in 1898, was a Fascist even before the 1922 march on Rome. Says Malaparte: I too, was of course, a Fascist as was everybody at that time for the same reasons for which everybody is now antiFascist. He became editor of Turin's influential La Stampa and stood very well with the Duce. Later he got into trouble with Fascist big shots (even sat in jail...
...Allies. About this time the British arrested him on the strength of his past record, but turned him loose when OWI-man Percy Winner, once with I.N.S. in Rome, guaranteed his good conduct. He then toured Germany on a special mission for the Allied Psychological Warfare Branch. Now ex-Fascist Malaparte lives well in his flashy Capri villa. Kaputt, whatever the doubts as to its reliability, is a great hit in Italy, has become must reading in fashionable clubs and salons...
...sponsor but not a member of the governing body of the joint anti-fascist refugee committee. Therefore, I am led to the conclusion that the subpoena has been issued as an attack against the ICCASP and that the other organizations have been brought in merely to confuse the issue...