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...Rome's dank Palazzo della Sapienza (Palace of Wisdom), the High Court for Punishment of Fascist Crimes weighed the fate of ailing General Mario Roatta...
Through a month of bickering testimony the stocky, jut-jawed Blackshirt, who was Mussolini's Chief of Staff and Chief of SIM (secret service), had denied all charges against him. No! no! he cried, he had not ordered the murder of Carlo and Nello Roselli, famed anti-Fascist refugees in France. That crime had been done while he was busy in Spain's civil war, in which he led the Italian flight from Guadalajara. But the prosecution brushed aside his protests, demanded his imprisonment for life. While the judges deliberated, Roatta's weak heart fluttered...
Indicted for spreading such septic falsehoods were: New York Timesmen George Axelsson, Harold Callender, Raymond Daniell, the Baltimore Sun's Paul W. Ward, Pundits Dorothy Thompson. Constantine Brown, William Phillips Simms, "the known pro-Fascist paper the New York World-Telegram...
From Moscow came a report that a new "National Democratic Front" was about to take over the Government. The new Front was demanding "decisive action against pro-Fascist elements in the Government and the dismissal of the Radescu Government." Moscow also reported that "on the demand of representatives of the Allied Control Commission the shooting at demonstrators had stopped...
Died. Jacques Doriot, 57, pudgy, mop-haired, ex-Communist, French Fascist founder of the pro-Nazi French People's Party, who once demanded that Vichy declare war on the U.S. and Britain; from the fire of low-flying Allied planes which attacked his car (according to German reports); in southwestern Germany...