The Vatican consenting, last week 1,138 of Italy's 1,225 school teachers and college professors took the oath of allegiance to the Fascist regime now required by Italian law. A few older men stood by their principles. One little group of twelve professors gave up their posts rather than swear. At their head was a once famed statesman whose name is never mentioned in the Fascist Press: 71-year-old Vittorio Emanule Orlando, professor of law at Rome University, in 1917 Premier of Italy, and one of the "Big Four" (with Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George) at...
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