Man with His Child

As words could not, the camera's eye recorded the story of a people (see cut). Somewhere in war-torn Italy, planes dived low. In this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden--and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation.

Last week in faultless Italian, the Mayor of the world's biggest city broadcast to Italy. Addressing Count Sforza (famed anti-Badoglio Liberal) as "my dear friend," Fiorello LaGuardia said: "We are at a loss here to understand the political situation in Italy. ... The policy of our Government ... is that . . . the form of permanent Government to be adopted, and the economy of the country, are to be left entirely to the decision of the people of Italy. . . . Inasmuch as a change is to be made, it should be made without delay. ... It should not be hampered by anything related to the past regime of Fascism. . . o The provisional government should have no taint, color or even smell of the old order of Fascism. ... I feel that the King should be retired either because he deserves a rest or because the country needs a rest. The important thing is to put him into active retirement where he would have no voice or say in the affairs of the country."

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