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...million treasure that Mussolini was carrying at the time of his capture and killing by partisans in April 1945 (TIME, June 24). Last week, with about 30 more witnesses to be heard from, one of the seven blue-ribbon jurors. 62-year-old Silvio Aldrighetti, a rich Padua ironmonger who of late weeks had been ailing, walked into the study of his elegant country home and shot himself through the right temple...
...Divisions aside, the Franciscans also produced more canonized saints than any other-94 canonized, 202 beatified. Among Franciscan saints: Anthony of Padua (patron of motorists), St. Bernardino of Siena (advertisers...
...successive Italian governments have been trying to unravel the intricate series of thefts and murders by which the Reds managed to get the treasure out of the hands of the partisans to whose care it was originally entrusted. Nearly two months ago in the marbled Palace of Justice at Padua, 35 defendants finally went on trial...
...figure in the Padua trial is 57-year-old Dante Gorreri, a onetime street singer and plumber who is charged with the murder of two Communist women comrades and embezzlement of the "heritage of the Italian state." To put him beyond the reach of the law, the Communists elected him to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and not until last year, after a long fight, was his parliamentary immunity lifted. On the witness stand at last, big-bellied Dante Gorreri answered almost every question with "I don't know ... I don't remember...
Something of Value. The Padua trial will probably not be completed for months; no one held out much hope that the bigwigs of Italy's Communist Party could ever be brought to book, much less forced to restore the Gold of Dongo. Nonetheless, in the process, Italian Communism stood to lose something of infinite value-the carefully fostered myth that no members of the Italian resistance fought the Nazis and Fascists quite so heroically and unselfishly as the Communists. Said Rome's II Messaggero: "This trial is for history...