ITALY: Outbreak in the South

What U.S. and British authorities had dreaded ever since Italy's liberation—the organization of a Communist outbreak—was a fact last week.

Through the streets of Andria, in southern Italy, stalked Communist Leader Vincenzo di Gaetano, sporting a brace of pistols and a pair of huge knives. He had been sent to Andria by the Bari branch of the Communist Party. Round his neck on a string was a whistle, with which in recent weeks he has frequently summoned from their labor in the fields the 600 men and 500 women of his rowdy revolutionary...

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