TERROR CAMPAIGN
ITALIANS Uf AMERICA V : ■ -■" r; VIBITS BY SEORET POLICE ■ •-• '•» / .:< •: :• ' ; <: • -j* ATTEMPTS TO FORCE LOYALTY OFFICIAL ACTION PROPOSED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received-October 5, 11.30 p.m.) ; " ? ■ WASHINGTON. Oct. r, After hearing allegations thatr Italian secret police, aided "by Italian Consuls, were 1 conducting, a campaign of terror within, the Uilited States to; force Italian Americans to swear allegiance to Signor Mussolini, the Committee on Un-American Activities, headed' by Mr. Martin Dies, announced that it intended'; to seek - action by • the Department of Justice. Signor Qirolamo ;i 'Valcnti, chairman of the Italian anti-Fascist Committee, named ifour<-police agents in the United States and five; Consul-Generals: assist-.; ing them. He said that Italian Americans were called on in their homes and-; threatened. Thousands of dollars wore secured by the exchange of printed greetings and messages from Signor Mussolini. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23161, 6 October 1938, Page 14
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135TERROR CAMPAIGN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23161, 6 October 1938, Page 14
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