PROTEST MEETINGS IN ITALY AGAINST THE ATLANTIC PACT
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) ROME, March 14. Rioting, short strikes and Left Wing workers’ protest meetings against the Atlantic Pact are reported from many parts of northern and central Italy. Fifteen were injured in Left Wing rioting in Naples. In Rome police and armoured cars stood by to prevent any large-scale anti-Atlantic Pact demonstration. Police guards were augmented round the Anglo-American consulates. The police, arrested a number of persons for pasting antiGovernment posters on walls. In Turin 20,000 attended a demonstration against the fiact. Communist senator, Mr Negarville, declared that the popular opinion of the streets would prevail over Parliament.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1949, Page 5
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