The bell of the University of Padua (home of St. Anthony, whom the faithful invoke to find lost articles) tolled for nine hours. Five thousand Romans jeered U.S. and British troops in Piazza del Popolo. Mobs paraded in Florence, Modena, Reggio Calabria. At Trieste, which Italy considered lost by a Paris conference decision, 10,000 nationalist firebrands stormed right up to the bow of the berthed cruiser U.S.S. Fargo and screamed: "Down with the Allied traitors! Get out of Italy and let us settle the score! Why don't you go back home to...
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