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Presents information on the personal and professional profile of Roberto Rossellini, an Italian film director. Characterization of Rossellini as a person; Reference to Rossellini's "The Rise of Louis XIV"; Information that Rossellini had few material resources and no extensive formal education to guide or constrain him; Description of Rossellini's reputation in the film industry.

This article presents an editorial covering various topics such as the legal ramifications of the sinking of the Lusitania and the declaration of Italy to join the Allies in fighting against Germany and Austria. There is also a summation of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's policies towards the merchant marines.

Provides some insights into world politics, foreign relations and industries compiled as of March 1922. Developments in politics in the U.S.; Sales tax policies in the U.S.; Diplomacy after the war and the events for the Genoa Conference in Italy; Proposals for the treatment of and relations with Russia; Issues pertaining to the working conditions and treatment of coal miners in the U.S.

Focuses on the modernist views of a priest in Siena, Italy. Controversy over the priest's establishment of a recreation home for boys; Role as one of the leaders of the Partito Popolare; Belief that the land should come back to the contadini who work it; Belief in women's rights; Suggestion that empty palaces in Siena be used to house the homeless; Editing of a weekly paper that is popular among revolutionaries.

Focuses on the conditions of the Italian war prisoners in the U.S. Involvement of prisoners in several activities such as farming, building roads, dams, irrigation developments, house painting and tailoring; References to several books which describes the mental condition of the Italian prisoners; Statement of a junior officer in an American prisoner camp that this camp has become the meeting place of all Italian Fascists.

The article discusses several clippings from Italian newspapers, and a number of odd issues of Italian magazines. "Epoca," one of the illustrated weeklies that mushroomed in Italy after the war and are still going strong, which was started less than a year ago, is already as successful as the rest of them. According to the author, Epoca represents in the evolution of the Italian illustrated weekly the setting down of the formula for the permanent service of the middle class. The layout resembles that of magazines Life, Look, the British Picture Post and the French Match. The author discusses the relation between Italian cultural life and mass media and methods.

Presents news related to the world politics. Predictions that the Soviet Union will seize Scandinavia and progress is made on her war with Finland; Information that Canada signed papers on a scheme to train aviators for the whole Empire; Efforts of a congressional committee to destroy the National Labor Relations Board; Announcement made by the Congress of Industrial Organizations that hundreds of skilled mechanics were out of work; Possibility that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini could take control of the Mediterranean if he entered the war.

Focuses on the political support illegally received by the Spanish revolutionaries. Probability of Portugal refusing to follow the path of neutrality in the Spanish revolution; Report of a newspaper correspondent on military supplies being purchased for the revolution; Support of the revolution by Germany, Italy and Portugal; Need of a thorough and prompt investigation into the involvement of countries in the revolution who are supposed to remain neutral.

Focuses on instances of fascist activities in Italy under the King of Italy Victor Emmanuel after the fall of the government of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini. Disbandment of anti-fascist volunteers in Naples, Italy; Criticism of Mussolini's policies by military general Antonio Basso who was retained in spite of his collaborations with the former Prime Minister; Account of autocratic activities on the behalf of military government of Italy against local press; Prohibition of public assemblies that stand against the King.

Reports that the agreement between Germany and Italy on one hand and Japan on the other to come to each other's aid if a third power should enter the war against one of the signatories is obviously intended to intimidate the U.S. Intention of German dictator Adolf Hitler to attack the U.S. from the west on the event of U.S. assistance to Great Britain; Plans made by the U.S. for two-ocean navy and an enlarged army, anticipating the possible need for defense on west and east sides; Assessment of the capabilities of the U.S. armament for withstanding assault on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Presents the author's views about the cleanliness conditions in various parts of the world. Opinion of the author about conditions in tiny Indian villages, by referring his visit to Mexico; Description of dirty conditions of New York City; Aspirations of the author from Italians for improving the cleanliness in the City; Elegance of the city of Rome in Italy; Possibility of erection of monuments in the New York City.

The article discusses the biography of and paintings by Italian artist Michelangelo Caravaggio. The way in which Caravaggio's artwork is portrayed in the motion picture "Caravaggio," directed by Derek Jarman, is mentioned. The first biography that was written about Caravaggio was "Lives of the Artists," by Giovanni Baglione. The biography was used as a way in which to describe Caravaggio's artwork. Specific pieces of Caravaggio's artwork are discussed, such as the painting "The Death of the Virgin," in which he treated a sacred event as an extension of everyday life.

Focuses on the debate over whether critical editions or the composers' actual autograph manuscripts should determine the way 19th-century Italian opera is performed. International scandal ignited by a 1958 article by musician Denis Vaughan detailing discrepancies between Giuseppe Verdi's autograph manuscripts and printed editions of his work produced by Casa Ricordi; Reasons why Vaughan's campaign for scholarly authenticity fizzled out; Problem of performing an opera exactly as it was conceived.

Focuses on the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini and his 400th anniversary. Reasons behind considering him as the artist of desire and surprise; Commendation of his painting "Four Rivers Fountain" in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy; Biographical information about the artist; Discussion of his preparatory drawings; Information on the locations at which most of his art is displayed; Eclipse of Bernini's exuberant sensibility in the century after his death as NeoclassicaI ideas came to dominate European art.

Focuses on the triangular relation among Italy, Libya and the Soviet Union that has made Colonel Moamar al-Qaddafi a ten percent shareholder in Fiat SpA. Proposal by Fiat director Giovanni Agnelli for a continuation of the joint efforts with the Soviet Union that produced Todliattigrad, the Italian-built industrial complex; Motives for Agnelli's sale of Fiat's stock to Qaddafi; Implications of the Fiat-Libya transaction.

Focuses on the actions taken by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) regarding the scandals that dominates in Italy. Comments on operations that established the PCI as a highly useful middleman in commerce between Italy and the Comecon countries; Discussion of the budget published by the PCI; Establishment of import-export companies in Italy; Establishment of commercial relations between Italian businesses and Eastern Europe; Call on the workers to combat economic crisis faced by the nation.

Interviews William Colby, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Discussion of the protection of associates and people who work with CIA; Problems related to the spending of money given by CIA to communists in Italy; Comment on Italian Communist Party; Opinion of Colby regarding the intervention by the U.S. in Italy; Information on the financing of the strikes that ruined President Salvador Allende's government in Chile.

Presents information on the economic summit to be hosted at Colonial Willliamsburg, a historical theme park in the United States. Information that each visiting dignitary will be housed in a restored seventeenth-century home; Discussion on the economic summits held at Venice, Italy and Versailles, France; Comment of the capacity of Williamsburg; Statement that the presummit bargaining has produced a superficial consensus on the divisive issue of economic growth; Description of the world's pressing economic woes.

Profiles landscape painter Claude Lorrain in Rome, Italy. Career history; Title of his paintings; Contribution of Lorrain to landscape painting.

Comments on the explicit orders that are issued to the press of Germany and Italy by the fascist dictatorships of those countries. Information that a German journalist was sentenced to life imprisonment because he was suspected of having supplied to a foreign newspaper some of the instructions issued by German Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels; Instructions issued to the Italian newspapers regarding the Ethiopian conquests and the League of Nations; Discussion on points of Fascist ideology and practice especially in international affairs.

Presents several quotations and views related to socio-political issues, published in different issues in various periodicals. Usage of American armies in a noble cause; Comment on the intellectuals of Italy; Request for a way to avoid arresting bootleggers on charges of illegal liquor sales; Difference in National Recovery Administration reports on gain in child labor.

This article presents the author's experience of his visit to Italy. It was a fine tour with transportation, guides, food, everything arranged by Special Services, to a famous spot in Italy. There were about a hundred dirty, disheveled, smeary kids and women howling on the other side, with faces and arms stretched through the boards like monkeys. Try eating a meal out of a mess kit while on the other side of the barbed wire stands a barefoot, sloppy dirty mother with her bawling, nose-running infant in her arms, watching each spoonful travel from plate to mouth, from plate to mouth, from plate to mouth, from plate to mouth.

Focuses on the socio-political and economic news from the world. Information on the Hessian Day Rally; Profiles Justice Louis D. Brandeis; Announcements by Spanish Premier Juan Negrin and General Jose Miaja that the Spanish republic will fight on; Announcement of a national Crusade for God in Government by the Right Reverend Joseph Corrigan, rector of the Catholic University of America; Controversy over the audit reports of Price Waterhouse and Co.; Criticism of Herbert Hoover, the Republican Party headline speaker for election campaign of 1940 and ex-President of the U.S.; Information on the Japanese attacks on the Soviet Union; Speculation on the supply of Russian oil to Italy and Germany; Controversy on the appointment of the federal court judges in the U.S.; Information on the session of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor; Results of the 1936 survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that the consumers cooperation has increased; Message of U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the need for initiating at once an extra Works Progress Administration appropriation for $150,000,000; Report that last week 4,000 women lined up to apply for just twelve jobs in the laboratories of the New York Health Department; Information on the exhibition of the paintings of painter Robert Hallowell at the Paul Reinhardt Galleries in the New York City, beginning February 20, 1939; Worry of Switzerland of German dictator Adolf Hitler's conception of neutrality; Permission given to German Jews to earn a living in Germany; Introduction of a legislation to permit the entry of 20,000 German refugees children fourteen years old or younger into the U.S. during this year and 1940 by Senator Robert F. Wagner; Information on the first showings of the semi-official documentary film "Spain Fights On," in the New York City; Charges of the Dean of Columbia Teachers' College that the Communists paid young people $3 a day to pose as students at Columbia and agitate.

The article reports and comments on news events taking place during the week of May 18, 1938. A number of items are covered including the visit of the German dictator Adolph Hitler to Rome, Italy and the military action taken by Japan against Chinese forces. The article also condemns the treatment of Ethiopia at the hands of the League of Nations.

Comments on global political and foreign relations issues. Message given by Russia to Italy demanding reparations two Russian ships sunk by the Italians; Decision of the National Labor Relations Board in the case of National Electric Products Corporation against an A. E. of L. union; Approval of the sugar bill extending the life of the Jones-Costigan Act of 1934 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Presents news briefs related to various political issues from around the world. Statement that Great Britain, France and the U.S. supplemented the understanding for international protection of currency values with an agreement to control the movement of gold; End of the Arab strike in Palestine; Threat by the Soviet Union that if Italy, Germany and Portugal did not cease aiding the rebels, the country would consider the neutrality pact at an end.

Focuses on various political developments all round the world. Views on economic sanctions against Italy; Comments on the formation of an autonomous North China under Japanese sponsorship; Orientation of Germany toward expansion to the eastward; Comments on a rising stock market that continues to surge upward at a speed reminiscent of the Coolidge-Mellon era; Information on Public Utility Holding Company Act; Comments on resignations and appointments of various political candidates; Comments on the letter written by the U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regarding the principle that U.S. will not interfere in Mexico's religious controversies; Claims that Senator William Edgar Borah and U.S. President John Edgar Borah are willing to sacrifice their home-keeping instincts and accept the Republican nomination for the presidency; Comments on the case of Cesar Vilar, general secretary of the National Cuban Federation of Labor; Words spoken by a Socialist agitator named Benito Juarez Mussolini; Application of Anti-Nazi law; Comments on American jazz music; Information about the negotiations between England and Soviet Union; Comments on the strong opposition to a ordinance that was a direct outgrowth of a strike at the factory in the U.S..

Presents news briefs on political and social issues as of September 18, 1835. Status of the membership of Italy in the League Council; Investigation into the murder of Senator Huey Long; Construction plans for twenty-three vessels in the U.S. Navy; Industrial relations problem facing Consumers' Research.

Comments on several political and economic issues from around the world. Criticism on the excessive opposition made by conservative opponents of the New Deal regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the unconstitutionality of sections of the National Industrial Recovery Act dealing with the shipment of surplus oil; Incorporation of diplomacy in the charges made by Soviet Union accusing Germany of orchestrating the murder of statesman Sergei Kirov; Reaction to the investigation made by U.S. Senator Gerald P. Nye on the munitions business; Agreement made by the French and Italian governments to respect the sovereignty of Austria.

Focuses on political and social developments at various parts of the world with emphasis on the U.S. Labor dispute that called a strike last week at the textile industry; Pickets killed during strike at Honea Path, South Carolina; Investigation of the marine tragedy involving the ship Morro Castle; Possible candidature of wife of the present Governor of Pennsylvania Mrs. Gifford Pinchot to success her husband; Foreign policies of Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini; Use of cattle hides for shoe manufacturing by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

Focuses on the economic effects of the world crisis in Italy and discusses the efforts made by the country to confront the crisis. Statistics of the drop in the freight traffic, monthly exports, and bank note circulation in the country; Inability of the country to maintain its foreign trade under adverse circumstances; Loss of foreign markets; Information on the basic program of economic nationalism with which Italian fascism attempted to meet the crisis; Restoration of the pre-war duty of 75 gold lire a ton; Results of the attempt to stimulate the production of wheat; Trouble with the stabilization of lira.

Reports on socio-political and economic developments from the world. Focus on the gold policy proposed by the U.S. President; Blame on scientific development for the desperate condition of the American farmer; Issues related to war in the Far East; Report that Austria's labor movement has come to the end of its course as a political factor in the life of the Austrian state; Views of U.S. journalist Walter Lippmann on the U.S. neutrality and its stand in the new European War; Announcement of the creation of corporate state by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

Focuses on the work of Italian economist and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto who also happens to be prophet and scripture of Fascism. Achievements of Pareto behind his reputation as an economist; Constituents of the actions of Pareto in the context of history; Consideration of Pareto's work on how customs and complexes of feeling persist while the rationale which explains them changes, according to the cultural medium in his work on sociology entitled "Theory of Variations and Residues"; Pareto's criticism of Marxism.

Relates the experience of the author during his visit in Spezia, Italy. Description of the villages visited by the author; Condition of the weather while passing through the suburbs of Genoa; Accounts on the conversation of the author with a waitress while dining at a restaurant.

Presents information about political and economic developments around the world. Need for a government to overcome the financial crises in France; Alternatives considered to prevent depreciation of franc; Credit provided by American bankers to Italy which has substantially increased the strength of the Mussolini government; Compulsion of military training in the U.S.

Presents information on several political developments in the U.S. and other parts of the world. Comments on the republican National Convention; Role of Mellon tax on some sort of tax reform; Report on the disarmament agreement put forward by France; Information on the status of Republic and Democratic political parties in the forthcoming election; Impact of kidnap of Giacomo Matteotti, a millionaire socialist and member of the Chamber on Italian Benito Mussolini's government.

Reports on several socio-political events around the world. Threat to the German government of a revolution by the Monarchists or the Communists, or both; Terms of Germany's surrender reduced to three conditions--the release of political prisoners, return of deportees, and restoration of German sovereignty in the occupied territory; Surrender of Germany throws a white light upon the action of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in conferring with French statesman M. Poincare; Arrival of German Communist emissaries in the Soviet Union, and their declaration that the hour for revolution has struck and urging the Soviet Union to lend assistance; Actions in the League of Nations; Views on Professor Gilbert Murray's appeal in the name of the International Federation of Trade Unions to settle the reparations question or lay it before the League for settlement; Reports from Bulgaria charging the recent popular uprising to the machinations of the Soviet Union; Information on economic policy in Spain and Italy; Questions related to the prohibition and the problem of the wheat farmers in the United States; Relationships involved in trade unionism among highly skilled workers in context of the pressmen's strike in New York; Report that not since the time of the Zeppelin raids has there been so much interest in the dirigible; Boom of oil in Southern California discussed at the Los Angeles, California meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Reports on several socio-political events around the world. Report that it is still too early to say that the Spanish revolution is a repetition of the Fascist coup in Italy; Report that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has agreed to the evacuation of Corfu Island, Greece and his government has filed the Treaty of Rapallo with the League; Views of French statesman M. Poincare related to a secret agreement between French and German industrialists; Report that his Brieulles speech clears up a great many questions on the future of European peace and war; View that Oklahoma is the first state in which the conflict between the Ku Klux Klan and the civil authorities comes to an open show of arms; View that if Pennsylvania Governor George S. Silzer is right in his assumption that the price of coal to the consumer is raised due to tax, the moral is the consumer ought to begin to do things for himself; View that there are serious defects in the Pennsylvania coal tax; Issues related to the danger involved in the control of radio service by corporations; Report that the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) have made public an amazing series of articles purporting to reveal the extent of the "Red Menace" in the United states; Information on issues related to the League of Nations; Report that a collection of all existing films dealing with former President Theodore Roosevelt has been installed in Roosevelt House in New York City.

This article presents news including British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's position as the greatest reporter of World War II, Churchill's belittling of China in their efforts against the Japanese in the war, and statements made by Churchill and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regarding the future of Italy and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

This article presents world news briefs including the forming of the Liberal Party in New York State, the disbanding of the Communist Party, improved weather, which was a major factor in the success of U.S. war efforts in Italy, and Sumner Welles's call for a Council of the United Nations to begin planning a post-war world.

Presents information on decline of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, his successor Pietro Badoglio and the King of Italy. Information on industrial strikes in Italy; Conquest of Tunisia by Allied Forces; Refusal of German dictator Adolph Hitler to provide aid to Mussolini; Discarding of Mussolini by King of Italy; Announcement by, Badoglio, about the treaty of alliance with Germany; Proclamation of Martial Law by Badoglio; Refusal by the Italian army to fire on common people; information on arrest of Mussolini by the king and Badoglio; Decision of surrendering to the U.S. and Great Britain; Assumption of them becoming prisoners of war; Information on Benedetto Croce, a philosopher, turning against his king; Information on continuation of war after surrender by the king and Badoglio; Report on peace in the occupied areas by the U.S. and Britain; Information on election of government in Italy; Declaration of the treaty to be null that was imposed by Mussolini and his people on Italians; Information on election of a National Constituent Assembly at the end of the war; Focus on break-down of fascists; Comparison of the King of Italy to several kings; Information on Nazi control in the northern section of Italy; Report on some of the Italian officials surrendering to Germany; Efforts of Italian liberals to work for moral and political education of war prisoners; Criticism of the King of Italy; Report on speech by British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill to Italians to surrender; Information on King and Badoglio equipped with American and British army at the end of the war.

Focuses on the powers on Pope Pius XII and fascism in Italy. Comments on dictators, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler control over Italy; Claims that Pius XII's policies are pro-Fascist; Comments on Vatican Policies; Information about the Fascist criminal attack on Greece; Reports that Catholic propaganda ignores all hypotheses and insists only on Pius XII's these for peace, justice and other pointless points; Claims that Italians are almost all baptized in the Catholic Church; Plan of Vatican-British-American diplomacy.

Focuses on military strategies to be applied by the U.S., in order to win the Second World War. Discussion on the Caporetto battle, and the practical elimination of Italy from that war; Lessons learnt by the nation from its failure to destroy German army in Libya; Need for the nation to achieve unification of military strategy and supply and the clearest possible flow of thought between the both; Weaknesses of the U.S. Army.

This article discusses the destruction of Hitlerism, its meaning, and what is to follow. Rumors surrounding cooperation between the governments of Great Britain and France to end the war and render it impossible for Germany to fight are discussed. Additionally, important changes have taken place in Italy's foreign policy.

Focuses on elections in Italy. Details of political scenario in the country in June 3, 1946 elections; Reasons for seeking a Christian Democratic alliance by Italian communist leader Palmiro Togliatti; Foreign policy of the U.S. towards Italy.

This article presents news including the potential for an agreement at Geneva to be agreed to on by 14 nations including the United States and the U.S.S.R., the political possibilities for U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson after President John F. Kennedy got approved for the presidential nomination in 1964, and the Christian-Democratic support for Antonio Segni, who was sworn in as the President of Italy.

Reports global political and government events. Success of the Benito Mussolini's government in Italy; Appointment of George F. Ewald as magistrate in the U.S.; Result of the hearing of the Mooney-Billings case in California.

This article presents the author's touring experience on Italy. The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning. Outside the villages there were fields with vines. The fields were brown and the vines coarse and thick. The houses were white and in the streets the men, in their Sunday clothes, were playing bowls. Against the walls of some of the houses there were pear trees, their branches candelabra d against the white walls. The pear trees had been sprayed, and the walls of the houses were stained a metallic blue-green by the spray vapor. The woods were gone; the road had left the river to climb; the radiator was boiling; the young man looked annoyedly and suspiciously at the steam and rusty water; the engine was grinding, with both Guy's feet on the first speed pedal, up and up, back and forth and up, and finally out level.

Discusses the Allies' sudden friendliness toward Soviet Russia. Criticism on the theory that this was due to Russian military successes in the near-east; Trilogy of forces as the actual cause of this change in the attitude of the Allies; Italian influence at the San Remo conference; Triumph of Lloyd George; Clever game of propaganda played by Krassin and his companions from Copenhagen.

Presents information on life and works of Italian poet Eugenio Montale. Information on the family and career background; Discussion of several books of poetry written by Montale; Description of the poet; Reference to the book "Le Occasioni"; Opinion of Montale on modern French poet Rene Char; Statement that the fascists perceived in him their implacable enemy; View that the radical sense of Montale's poetry, addressed to his comic-tragic contemporaries; Report that he has never cared much to argue the charges against him.