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Eight months ago (TIME, Nov. 16) onetime Socialist deputy Tito Zaniboni was pounced upon by Roman policemen as he peeped through the telescopic sights of a rifle. For hours thousands of Fascists howled for Zaniboni's blood. Then Signor Mussolini?well knowing that the rifle had been trained upon a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi whence he had been scheduled to speak?stepped dramatically upon that balcony and cried: "Fascists, No Revenge! You will obey! You will take no revenge upon Zaniboni, because I wish...
Thus tenderly preserved by Il Duce from Latin lynching, Zaniboni had escaped extra-legal retribution up to last week, when General Prosecutor Crisafulli of Rome announced that he will be tried shortly, charged with "attempting a premeditated homicide upon Premier Mussolini which was averted by circumstances beyond the accused's control...
Local Censorship. The alleged attempt by the Socialist Zaniboni to assassinate Premier Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 16) was, of course, the excuse for much of this relentless clamping down upon anti-Fascist activities. News leaked through to the effect that Il Rivoluzione Liberale, noted anti-Fascist organ at Turin, had been suppressed; and at Rome a similar fate overtook the Avanti, Giustizia, Unita Cattolica and Voce Republicana, while other opposition papers such as Il Mondo and Il Risorgimento were "allowed to continue publication, although their entire issues were seized daily...
...Yugo-Slavia. Friction between Italy and Yugo-Slavia was generated, curiously enough, by the Zaniboni affair. At Trieste the Slavonian newspaper Edinost published accusations to the effect that the whole Zaniboni "plot" had been "framed" by Fascist leaders to embarrass the Opposition and serve as an excuse for further tyranny. Promptly Fascists attacked and severely damaged both the offices of Edinost and the Yugo-Slavian consulate at Trieste...
Mussolini has just accomplished another coup de force. Zaniboni was a Unified Socialist, but was excluded from the party on account of his too frequent visits to the King...