ITALY: Due Process

Eight months ago (TIME, Nov. 16) onetime Socialist deputy Tito Zaniboni was pounced upon by Roman policemen as he peeped through the telescopic sights of a rifle. For hours thousands of Fascists howled for Zaniboni's blood. Then Signor Mussolini—well knowing that the rifle had been trained upon a balcony of the Palazzo Chigi whence he had been scheduled to speak—stepped dramatically upon that balcony and cried: "Fascists, No Revenge! You will obey! You will take no revenge upon Zaniboni, because I wish it!"

Thus tenderly preserved by...

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