Religion: Echo from the Past

Mussolini was not the only Italian whose voice last week echoed Italy's blus tery, tinseled-glory era. In bomb-scarred Milan, II Duce's good friend and admirer, Alfredo Cardinal Schuster, also tried to revive the deflated Italian ego. The 63-year-old Italian Cardinal was born in Rome, son of a Vatican Swiss Guard, whose members come from the Swiss can tons of Zurich and Lucerne.

The Cardinal told Italians to cherish their "Latin civilization . . . fused with Christianity." Declared he: "Politically, as from the religious standpoint, Italy has no need to take and borrow her faith and her social system from other peoples.

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