Don Moses Lionello, the village priest, had organized the procession. Like other processions throughout Italy last week on "Children's Sunday," it was intended to rally resistance against the Communist Party's youth drive. Grave, grey Don Moses walked backwards at the head of the column, leading the singing of Oh Mary, How Beautiful Thou Art. Facing him were 150 little girls in dresses of white tulle with long white veils, and 200 other children in their best Sunday clothes, all from the village of Boscochiaro near Venice. Pretty five-year-old Ivana Pirollo clutched a bouquet of flowers. Ten-year-old Maria Bessan carried her eleven-month-old...
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