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By
SYDNEY
SMITH
THERE IS
a phantom
large in Italy to-day. shadow on the wall looks
Who Icada the Neo-Faucluts? Intelligence reports are based
on
THEN, the Liberais have been the theory that two chiefs a two-year-old Common Man Party, planning to merge with the Carlo Scorza, middle-aged rugged Farclat fanatic, a stubborn and wily which in Catholic, anti-Monarchist, southerner from Calabria, ard anti-Left and anti-Allied.
Augusto Turati, a former editor of a
Milan Fascist newspaper, equally Its newspapers, which preach the wlly and fanatical, but more subtle, nenrest soapel to the Fascials' intellectual and for more dangerova. National Socialism, have some of
Scorza was Fascist Party Secretary Italy's top circulations. Ita untu
the Its followers are now learning
at
the
armistice. After
juste in the north he hid in a
monastery near Milan. Police Party songs and have recently buon
A little like the outline of the wooped on his hide-out there, and beaten up by ex-partisans for sing- later on others at Padua, Vicenza ing them in an old and too familiar ex-Duce. It is called Noo- and Vareze.
fashion. Its enemies call it n rally Fascism. It is something still Each time his Upstern gave him [Ing point for the new Fascists.
too vague to combat effective-warming a few hours before ly, too subtle to hold, and too police arrived. undeveloped to define clearly.
O
the
The coll in ripe 10-day in Italy for some new form of Fascism as it wus for Mussolini's Faselam In 1930.
Hundreds of thousands of tx- But it is gathering strength, | TUNATI was secretary of the
the Fascista nod agreement over force and individuality daily. 1931. He visits Rome occasionally, sons
Fascist Party from 1932 until Fascist periodicals, their compari- in a way which those who read where his close friends receive tele-chaos and dismay of to-day.
of Mussolini's Italy and the of the Allies' handling of the phone calls and letters from him. Nazia in Germany find difficult to believe.
There were 4,500,000 mein- bers of the Fascist Party he. fore the war. Party losses until the Armistice of 1943 are not known. But from then until the collapse in North Italy the partisans reckon they accounted for 300,000 Fascists.
And they see in the phantom of But the police have never been to-day the hope for n reality of to-
within hours of his trail.
These two men are believed to be behind the most dangerous organisa- tion, based in North Italy and calling itself the Fascist Democratic Party.
Socialist. Its foreign polley is anti- Its home policy is simply National
Allied and bases its hopes on an eventual nome-Berlin-Moscow, axis,
The party has a military organisa- tion known as S.A.M., which stands for "Mussolini Action Squad."
his
ΥΠΟΣΤΟΥ.
there
HEAVY SNOW at Whaley Bridge, Choshiro, recently produced ·
this roal Christmas card effect.
Our troops are not happy in Japan
The new Republican amnesty S.A.M. Is divided Into small of last June liberated 8,500 units, which have no contact with DEFORE 1 left Japan I promised each other. Only the leader of each Fascists, including extremist group knows the identity of
our occupation troops, from brigadiers to privates, that I would ex-Ministers, and cancolied the superior officer. trials of 20,000 collaborators. Two names suggested as organisers try to do something for them.
I want to underline that to-day of S.AM..are Galbinti, chief of
40,000 British troops are Since then the High Court general staff of the Fascist Mia has amnestlied another 691 and onco member of the Fascists' stationed there.
.From the beginning, our occupa- Grand Council, and Pizzirani, head Fascists, has heard the appeals of the Fascist Federation of Rome of 2.000 more who have been during the German occupation, both released on licence, and is due much-wanted men. to hear 3,000 more appeals.
And 90 per cent of these are kely to be granted,
This will leave in all Italy's jails just 1.200 definitely sen- tenced Fascists-600 fewer than the ex-partisans who are still in prison for ucts of violence Fascist ugainst Fascists property.
or
NOT all the freed Fascists belong to the phantom Neo- Fascism. The Italian political potice and the British Inteli- gence Service believe that they have to deal with about 500,000 Neo-Fascists.
They are not well organised, but all of them manage to spread the gospel of Fascism in their own way.
new
For example, four journalists, amnestied from a total of 83 years in prison for collabora- tion, are now writing for the Neo-Fascists* weeklies, which are springing up like mushrooms.
But they are writing anony- mously and the police cannot; prove their activity.
They are now again driving their splendid limousines and controlling with their almost. intnet millions the same finan- At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. cial and industrial interests
with which they backed Duce.
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the
the
Recently, ngents contacted Allied authorities in a futile attempt to pave the way for a safe return for Turati to open pollical life and the formation of
which a party would be prepared to dispense with the use of the word "Fascist."
The Allied reply was brief and pointed. Turati stays underground.
POCKET CARTOON
by JOHN DEANE POTTER
tion has been wrong down to nearly detail. Few staff officers every responsible for organising the OC- cupation seemed to realise that they brigadier that one of the Jap were dealing with a conquering force landing In a defested country the troops that anything was done.'
peacetime,
in
Their attitude was ny if they were assaulting a beach In Normandy.
It was not until 1 suggested to a
cinemas should be requisitioned for
I
know there are plans for cinemas, leave hotels, and English style pubs, But they are coming along far too slowly.
Tt in not only other ranks who suffer.
Regular officers, prepared to be. alationed in remote Eastern gar- risons, are dismayed.
They did not expect to so their wives in wartime. But peace is more than a year old, and when they see that it may be years before their familica come out, their biter com: plaints mingle with the unhappy' chorus from the men.
And the day I left Japan several men showed me their tigärgi.e ration —20 for a week. Moll sometimes takes four months, and there is no- where to go in the evening.
The British soldier needs little to
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Instead of planning for service, troops, welfare and amenities officers
Against this the G.Is 'in Jan make him happy, and the detented and canteens to go ashore first and prepare the way, they got the in- have everything, to the point of Japanese pay for their upkeep fantry to go first, as if in the teeth | pampering, The Americans, with of machine-gun fre,
All that was needed to make the farce complete was softening-up barrage.
their usual sweeping effelency, have the whole country organised for the preliminary well-being of their own men.
Amenities and comforts landed inter. Many of those scheduled have not landed yet,
The men were billeted in cold grubby Japanese wooden barracks. which go up liku tinder if anyone drops a match.
They had insuficient blankets and warm clothes. Many had no beds. and slept on stretchers which were
Every hotel worth taking over has been requisitioned, and all the big cinemas are reserved for American
part of reparations. Are we to save the Japaneto money and labour at
cxpense of happiness?
the
our UWI
THE RESULT
rapidly becoming a
men's
probability
troops and show preview Hollywood TF we do, there is a possibility films. At every street corner you -which makes everyone who hay. meet canteens and recreation_cen-|
been to Japan-shudder. tres.
Our men do not want to go out American wives have been lying with their husbands Japan for with Japanese women, but what is hurriedly "scrounged" from hospi-, four months. Where there were no a man to do with litle mall and no.
tuls. These they suspended between'| two sugar boxes.
NO ENTRY TIRO, the first Japanese lown to
In
houses hundreds of comfortable; amusements? even palatial, army huts were built, complete with refrigerators
steam-heating.
and
After several months, hundreda of Eritish soldiers were walking through the streets with ittering Jap pirks on their arms.
.
If something is not done quickly----
now it may be too Late
even
I be fully occupied by British English women would not demand troops, has several large cinemas. the luxuries that Americans regard
as their right. They would be will But our troops could not enter them they were for Japanese only. ing to endure a much lower standard thousands-more-will-Had this form.
the loneliness True.
there
Д was makeshift of comfort if they could only join of escape from cinema in the camp,
being in a country but for a their husbands, But it will be months boredom of
hefore the first British wife leaves which is probably more foreign soldier the joy of going to the
for Jupan.
them than any in the world. pictures is in getting out of barracks.
According To Culbertson
(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)
and
On a higher level, there are!
It is no great loss, when playing At one table North responded to more than a dozen large indus-
small-slam contract at rubber the opening spade bid with a highly trialists and newspaper owners bridge, to "muff the overtrick, but speculative two no trump, and South who wore the backbone of Mus-at duplicate that many be a serious leaped directly to six spades. Herd
Observe to-day's deal:
West decided to Icad a
trump, solini's Fascism for 26 years, matter!
South won in his own hand, cashed and who have been amnestied,
South, dealer.
another high trump (while East discarded the diamond ace, to show East-West vulnerable.
his strength in that suit), then took the heart finesse. The queen hold Match-point duplicate.
ing he cashed the heart ace, ruffed A heart went to dummy's spade NORTIL
inck
ruffed another heart, J85
establishing the fifth card of the suit VAQ975
and Insuring
the contract. South cashed the club nce, led to QD +962
the club queen, discarded the long; diamond on the set-up heart, and then tried to win two more club tricks. Enat, however, had South's fourth club covered, and the extra trick could not be made.
in South's play was good, so far taking the heart finesse and ruffing out the suit were concerned, but he made, one rather silly mis- talte. Before he went to the club queen, to cash the established heart, why not cash the last trump? What good was it in the South hand? The bidding varied at the eight Obviously, no good! If he had laid tables, but most of the North-South down that card before discarding on pairs arrived at six spades. As it the heart, East would have been happened, ho West. hit upon n' squeezed--he would have had to diamond opening, and at seven of give up either his last diamond, the eight tables South took every establishing the queen, or his club trick.
stopper.
THERE
TUIERE are thousands of State and 1 over municipal oficials
lawyers, Italy, including Judges, maglatrates and police officers, who were members of the 'Fosclat Party, and are now back again in their old Jobs, many of which were obtained through party influence..
Rupert and Ninky-2
Mrs, Dear us down and looks at the big Bower patiem on her old Curtains "You liked a very the sensible question, Rupert," saya. "What can I do with these? Shall I cover a chair?. Or shall t make you a suit? But the idea of a suit covered with sunflowers doesn't appeal to Rupert, and... thinks it is high time to change, the subject. My pal, Bill Badger, in not very well," he says hastily. May I go across to his cottage and Akif be better?"
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