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...turned up in the small French town of Morvillars, six miles from the Swiss border. Near by were Chief of Government Pierre Laval and the head of the Vichy Militia, Joseph Darnand. At last report, Petain and Laval were in Germany. The whereabouts of labor chief Marcel Deat and fascist leader Jacques Doriot were not reported. But Fernand Bouisson, president of the Vichy Chamber of Deputies, had been caught by the Maquis four miles from St. Raphael, was being held for Allied justice...
Died. Luigi Cardinal Maglione, 67, seasoned, Fascist-hated Papal Secretary of State since 1939, longtime Vatican Nuncio to France; of neuritis and circulatory ailments; in his birthplace, Casoria, near Naples. Heavy-smoking Cardinal Maglione succeeded his schoolmate Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli as Secretary of State when Pacelli became Pope Pius XII, was so close to him that Italians punned: whenever the Pope went out without his maglione (Italian for large sweater), he caught cold...
Allied troops who escaped from Italian prison camps told how Carnera had been selected as the hero of a Fascist propaganda movie illustrating the physical superiority of Italians over African Negroes. For this purpose, the propagandists chose an impressive opponent for Carnera: a burly, six-foot-three Zulu prisoner from the Army of South Africa, Kay Masaki. He had never boxed before. He was fed nothing for three days, then placed in the ring with Carnera. The cameras started grinding...
Some of the world's most fascinating news is beginning to be written: the story of what really has been happening in Occupied Europe during the past five years, in Nazi Germany since 1933, in Fascist Italy since 1922-and the story of these nations' slow awakening to new freedom...
...found Italians hungry ("For the first time in Rome an American feels a little uncomfortable before the hungry eyes of the inhabitants"), eager to regain self-respect and self-government, but resigned to paying "in humiliation, impoverishment and a long status of probation for fatal mistakes of fascist policy...