"I Resign"

Up to last week there were five Axis correspondents in Washington. Now there are four.

Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932--a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist at all. From Washington he filed few spot-news stories but sent accurate, prosy summaries of U.S. opinion which he knew would never be printed in Italy without drastic garbling. At the end of one of these last week he added: "Iresign." Then he went off to Florida for a "vacation," said he would return to live in Washington.

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