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...automobile bearing five Fascist bullyboys and a kidnapped man raced out of Rome. The gang leader was vicious, U.S.-born Amerigo Dumini, henchman of Benito Mussolini. The victim was eloquent, anti-Fascist Giacomo Matteoti, leader of Italy's liberal and left-wing parties. His body, burned and headless, was eventually found in a ditch near Rome. His assassins were convicted but were soon freed...
Last week another automobile bearing Amerigo Dumini raced across Italy. The murderer of Matteoti was trying to escape the blackshirt roundup of the Badoglio Government. In his car were forged passports, a wad of currency and his mistress. But he did not reach the Swiss frontier. One story said that the carabinieri captured Dumini after a fierce gun fight. Another had him stopped by a barricade on the highway. All stories agreed that he was betrayed by a discarded mistress...
...thugs spread terror, his henchmen grabbed Italy's financial and economic power, and through the organized murder in 1924 of Giacomo Matteoti, the one dangerous leader of his opposition, boosted him to a modern tyrant's throne...
Every Christmas Lanny goes to Kurt's home and brushes up on conditions in Silesia. He also visits Munich, where he hears an early oration by "Adi" Schicklgruber; Paris, where Isadora Duncan propositions him; Rome, where he gets into hot water trying to help Matteoti; London, where he promotes Stepfather Marcel's paintings. He becomes something of an art expert, has his first durable affair, goes on dialectical sprees with his Red Uncle Jesse, acquires a becoming pinkness. He captures a U. S. multimillionheiress, experiences life among the shrieking rich on Long Island's South Shore, turns...
...they have published Giustizia e Libertá, organ of fugitive Italian liberals. To the Sûreté their killing had all the earmarks of a political murder. The bodies were found day after an article had appeared in the Roselli paper bemoaning the murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteoti by Fascists in Rome just 13 years before...