Italy Stages Pre-election Military Display
(Rec. 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 4. Twenty-five thousand of Italy’s Allied, equipped armed forces today put on the biggest parade of power since Mussolini’s dictatorship, says the Associated Press Rome correspondent. Cheering crowds of nearly 500,000 answered Communist catcalls as the parade passed for two hours through Rome.
The display was held a fortnight before the momentous elections. Officially it was called to mark the revival of an historic division, but the Government left no doubt that it was intended primarily to warn the Communists and reasure the anti-Com-munists. Four thousand Italians attempted to storm across the Jugoslav border after they had broken up a Communist rally at Gorizia, says the Associated Press Rome correspondent. Border guards and Italian troops stopped them.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1948, Page 5
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