INTERNATIONAL: Plot, Pounce

Monday, Nov. 15, 1926

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"Mussolini led me into a trap, brother!" cried the Colonel, "I have taken Fascist gold, it is true; but I have not betrayed our cause, the cause of Liberty. . . . Have faith in me, piccolo mio, I have never sought to do anything but save the cause. . . . What I received from Fascism, I used to further the cause of anti-Fascism." Radiant, Sante Garibaldi cried: "Ha! Then, Ricciotti, I can deny everything?"

"No," replied the Colonel. "Do not deny anything. . . . We must not now antagonize the French Secret Service. . . . Say to the newspapers that I can and will clear myself when the time comes."

^{*Because famed Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot,
(1807-1882), "The Liberator," passed almost the whole of his dynamic
existence in fomenting revolutions and championing lost causes both in
Italy and throughout South America.
He it was who fired the inhabitants of the numerous petty 19th Century
Italian states with the ideal of the union which was crystallized into
the Italian Kingdom by Count Cavour and Vittorio Emanuele II.
He it was who espied a young Brazilian girl through his telescope as he
approached her country, fell instantly in love, and upon landing won
her to be his wife by a courtship consisting of the single exclamatory
sentence: "Thou oughtest to be mine!"
†The captaincy-general of Catalonia, comprising the four provinces of
Barcelona, Gerona, Lerido and Tarragona, embraces almost all that is
modern and industrially productive in Spain. Its people speak by
preference not "Spanish" but "Catalan" and very generally favor
secession from the rest of Spain.}