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Arnaldo Cortesi is a patient and easygoing man. In his 17 years as New York Times correspondent in Italy, Cortesi managed to get along with Fascist officials while many another newsman was kicked out of the country. Cortesi (rhymes with more-lazy) had to get along: he was an Italian citizen. (His mother was from Boston; his father was Associated Press bureau chief in Rome for 29 years...
Joyce was an obscure fascist bully boy in 1939 when he fled England, a week before war began. He took with him a quantity of his wife's household goods, the funds of his National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...
Worse Than Italy. ". . . Things have happened in Buenos Aires recently that exceed anything that this correspondent can remember in his 17 years' experience in Fascist Italy. He has seen whole sections of the city occupied by the Army in full war kit; he has seen policemen directing traffic with revolvers in their hands...
Ezra Pound, brick-bearded expatriot facing a U.S. treason charge for broadcasting Fascist propaganda from Italy, debated what poetic justice should be in his case, finally concluded: "Well, if I ain't worth more alive than dead, that's that. If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinion, either his opinions are no good or he's no good...
Joseph Clark Baldwin, dapper socialite New York Congressman, made a straight-faced proposal that U.S. film actors be "lend-leased" to Europe to re-educate the enemy: "Overnight they would be able to do more good in inspiring confidence in the Nazi and Fascist-trained youth of Europe than all of the unknown professional educators we are now contemplating sending abroad...