Show Writer Tactfully I Handles Story on Tragedy of I Italia talia Davide Giudici Avoids Controversies Controversies Con Con- in Telling lelling of Rescue By HARVEY HANCOCK With tactful editorial Instinct Davide GiudicI Italian newspaper newspaperman man has written In heroic fashIon fashIon fash- fash Ion of the conquest of nature by aircraft man and Icebreaker In his book bool The Tragedy of The Italia lIe He was aboard the Krassin as It plowed through the the Arctic Ice packs to rescue what remained of the ill fated Nobile party and ob- ob tamed his Information hand but he has carefully avoided enterIng entering en- en into the bitter controversy that has engaged many writers If there was any fault finding with the judgment exercised by members members mem- mem bers of the rescue parties in the heroic venture the author bein being an Italian has Judiciously overlooked overlooked over over- I looked them If selfishly attempted to save his own skin at the sacrifice of Malmgren and Mariano one will find no confirmation confirmation mation of it in Giudici's account It If members of the tho beleaguered red tet party begrudged the rescue ot of Nobile first it is rot not mentioned BECOMES CRITICAL Only twice in his story has the become and then only in a pin pink 1 tone He referred referred re- re to the strange attitude of the Norwegian ess station at Green Harbor for lack of attention attention atten- atten tion to messages from flom the Krassin and questioned the of the icebreaker to Kings Day Bay be before ore beginning be- be e- e ginning the search of th l lost st balloon balloon bal bal- loon party r Today he comm commented it Is difficult to say whether if the search had been continued immediately immediately imme- imme after th the rescue of the red tent group in in the zone where General Nobile and his party saw the mysterious column of smoke the six men left in the balloon could have eon een rescued Whatever is said it can not be doubted that the last favorable moment for a continuance ot of the search with any probability of success sue sue- cess was when the lay the tho red tent encamp encamp- meat ment After two months months' delay delat the Ice fco began breaking up and to continue the search in such chaos was sas an Impossible undertaking Mr 11 Giudici e that Nobile was taken off the ice pack fIrst I by the Swedish flier Lundborg on Instructions from his government that who was the most sev rely injured was too heavy and hIs broken leg would have Interfered with the flight a statement state state- mont ment concurred in by himself himself him him- self that Noblie Nobile would be better equIpped to direct the rescue work worl from a base and that no one had any but high hopes but what the entire party would be saved In a afew few days Nobile when he climbed Into the plane had no idea it would be three weeks before the group would be rescued the author au- au thor observed It was May 5 1928 that the on the Italia stopped for for- its encouraging messages and the world sensed the catastrophe phe lle Between then and July 11 when and Mariano were I found and the next week when the I group was taken from the ice floe loe by the Krassin was enacted enacted en- en acted one of the most remarkable le epics in history The material was there and all the author had to do was to lut it down whIch he did as he explains with an eye for accuracy rather than literary em- em His talc presents the entire amazing adventure the first news of the disaster the organization or- or of the rescue party the departure of Amundsen the Krassin's through the ice fields an t tt l' l final rescue I D. Appleton r L' L New York |