Sole Exception

For the first time a man sentenced by Dictator Benito Mussolini's drastic "Fascist Military Tribunal For Defense of the State" was pardoned and set free last week.

Leo Moulin, a young Belgian professor, had smuggled into Italy and secretly distributed anti-Fascist leaflets. When for this crime he was sentenced to only two years in jail, Fascists shrugged, "Well, what could the Tribunal do? Our Crown Prince has just married a Belgian" (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930).

Seemingly this nuptial fact was the basis on which King Vittorio Emanuele III ventured last week to pardon Leo Moulin who has served but eight months of his sentence. Stiffly the Dictator's office announced that a special guard would accompany Professor Moulin to the frontier; he would never again be allowed inside Italy.

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