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Show Not So Good Most Americans were glad to welcome Dino Grand!,, Italian Foreign For-eign Minister, when he visited the United States. The greetings which he received were not, in any sense, on endorsement of Fascism as practised in Italy but rather an expression of good fellowship to the Italian people. Two incidents which occurred during his visit deserve some attention. atten-tion. The first happened in Philadelphia Phil-adelphia where an Italian boy leaped on the running board of the car in which Grandi was riding rid-ing and shouted, "Down with Mussolini! Mus-solini! Down with Grandi! Down with Fascism I" The lad was ai-rested, ai-rested, promptly tried and sentenced sen-tenced to two years penal servitude by a judge on the charge of "inciting "in-citing to riot." The other incident, to which we refer, occurred in New York City where the police invaded the offices of-fices of a small newspaper, committed com-mitted to anti-Fascism, and hung around for a couple of hours. The pretext, it is said, was that the newspaper might publish something some-thing which would provoke a demonstration, dem-onstration, embarrassing Signov Grandi. Neither of these occurences reflect re-flect credit upon the freedom of America or the principles upon which our government is founded. In fact, it is difficult to understand under-stand the pacific quiescence of the public generally in communities where such invasions of the public pub-lic rights occurred. |