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veri, manager of the Marelli Company, a man esteemed by everyone,
and many others who had taken no part in politics, Giacomo
Grazoli, head of the Grazoli plant and a pioneer of industry,
Scoloni and Mazzoli, engineers of the Breda works at Sesto,
Weber of Bologna, Vischi of the Reggiane at Reggio Emilia,
were all murdered.
"The moderating orders of the CLNAI existed merely on paper.
"In the province of Como, 1,200 persons were murdered, in
that of Varese 300, in that of Brescia 1,700, but when, later, the
Fiamme Verdi (partisans consisting of regular officers and men)
arrived, order was restored. In the province of Bergamo, there
were 53 murders, in that of Mantua 1,500, at Lecco 37, in all
Lombardy 10,000!"
"These atrocities were nearly all committed by men who had
become partisans after hostilities had ceased." 13
The effect of the "liberation" can be compared to a situation
in the United States if all the prisons were to be opened, and exiled
criminals invited back to shoot the police who arrested them.
The "liberation of Italy" deserves the closest study by Americans,
for it is an accurate description of what would take place
here if the Communists succeed in seizing power.
In France, Communist partisans were murdering Frenchmen
during this same period. In the Ardennes Forest, a vast area is
still closed to tourists, because Frenchmen who had opposed Communism
were slaughtered and buried in mass graves during the
"liberation" of France. They were nearly all businessmen, educators
and engineers of the upper middle class, the same classes
which the Soviets had murdered at Katyn Forest.
Sisley Huddleston, former Paris correspondent of the London
Times, fully documented this massacre of the French middle
class in two books, Terreur 1944, and France; The Tragic Years,
1939-47. 14 These massacres of anti-Communists in France and
Italy have few parallels in the history of Europe.
Although Ezra Pound escaped certain death at the hands of
the partisans by surrendering to United States forces, as far as he
knew, he was to have been sentenced to death by his captors. The
New York Times, May 6, 1945, carried the headline, "EZRA
POUND, WANTED FOR TREASON, / Seized by American