Foreign News: Fascist Thieves

At Genoa and Parma tall capitals flaunted from placards:

IL DUCE PREVAILS!

GENTLEMEN IN FASCISMO, THIEVES IN JAIL!

The "thieves" were Count Lugi Lusignani, onetime President of the Bank of Parma; Giambattista Biaggi, Swiss Consul General at Genoa; and Professor Alessandro Groppali of the University of Parma. They were jailed last week on sealed charges. Allegedly the President and the Professor had misused their influence as prominent Fascists to abstract quietly from the recently bankrupt Bank of Parma many a golden lira. The detention of these particular gentlemen was notable. All are intimates of...

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