When the Fascists late in the war arrested Alcide de Gasperi (who was to become Italy's great postwar Premier), they found a small notebook full of names. Soon a band of Fascist toughs burst into the Florence home of Lawyer Adone Zoli, one of those named, to haul him off to jail. "Be careful, or I'll kick your teeth in," warned one of the Blackshirts. "Too late," answered Lawyer Zoli. "They are false."
Last week, with similar equanimity, Lawyer Zoli, 69, took on an assignment which, sooner or later, would almost certainly cost him a few teeth politically. When courtly...
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