Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the United States, guarded by a group of police in plain clothes, walked side by side with the Chief Justice of the United States, in the Yale University Commencement Parade. He received an honorary degree from the University.
The police were considered necessary because on Commencement morning, 500 circulars were anonymously distributed on the Campus. These handbills protested in the name of the New Haven Italian Colony against honoring the prince: "To the Yale students:
"Gentlemen: While the Italian peninsula is under the reactionary storm of Mussolini,...
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