Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1963 — Page 11

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Town In Italy Is Divided By Quarrel

By WILLIAM F. SUNDERLAND United Press International SASSO MARCONI, Italy (UPI) —Side by side in the village square stand the cross of the Roman Catholic Church and the hammer and sickle of communism, symbols of a bitter quarrel that divides the town. On the one side stands Don Dario Zanini, the priest; on the other. Mayor Renato Giorgi, a Communist. In an interview, Mayor Giorgi made a superstitious gesture with his hands and said grimly: “I honestly couldn’t care less about. the excommunication. But Mis curse is nothing to shriig off. This priest cursed two men before. One of them went bankrupt and the other died of cancer.” When the mayor’s words were

Kremlin Is Having Middle East Trouble

By K.C. Thaler United Press International LONDON tUPD — Things are not going well for the Kremlin in the Middle East, one of the major infiltration targets of Soviet strategy. * Having built up its influence in Iraq with considerable military and ecfihomic investments, Moscow is currently witnessing the fact that the new Iraq regime is clamped down with severity on Communists and shot some of their leaders. The new Syrian regime also has tightened its grip on the Communists and is tracking them down. After accepting quietly an antiCommunist policy of President Abdel Gamal Nasser in Egypt, Russia now finds things are getting out of hand. This development has come at. a time when Moscow has become ostensibly more sensitive to antiCommunist policies of the countries with whom it is doing business, for fear of Red China’s reaction. One of Peking’s arguments in the conflict with Moscow is that Russia is doing too much business with the so-called bourgeois circles in developing countries and ignoring the proper revolutionary movements of Com-

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relayed to Don Dario, the priest said falk of a “curse” was absolutely ridiculous. He had indeed excommunicated Mayor Giorgi and seven of his Communist-so-cialist councillors, all members of his parish. But, he said, there was no curse. : Not Unique The battle between the mayor and the priest is between two irreconcilable enemies — the Roman Catholic Church and communism. It is not unique in Italy, an almost completely Catholic nation that has the largest Communist party’ in the Western world, Don Dario’s conflict with Mayor Giorgi hit the headlines in Italy last month when, on Feb. 24, the priest announced from his pulpit that under Canon 2334 of

munist elements. The Kremlin has ben working hard to gain and to extend a foothold in the Middle East. It has forced its way into the oilrich and strategically important area by supplying Nasser with arms back in the late 19505, to help undermine Western influence there. But Nasser after accepting aid on a sizable scale from the Russians clamped down on the Communists in Egypt and outlawed the party. Moscow did not like it but swallowed the blow for the sake of political considerations. But when General Abdel Karim Kassem’s revolution ousted King Feisal in Iraq the Kremlin at once approached the new regime in Baghdad and has since poured into Iraq large quantities of modern arms and economic aid. There were very strong indications that Moscow was in effect seeking to build up Kassem as a counter-weight to Nasser, thus trying to gain ground in the area by playing along with the two rivals for Arab leadership and playing one against the other. This game has come to naught. Kassem is dead and the new regime looks to Cairo for cooperation.

church law — which provides for excommunication of those who interfere with the rights and liberty of the church — he was excommunicating the mayor and seven members of the city council. Hereafter, said Don Dario, the men named would be denied the right of church attendance, baptism of children, religious marriage or religious burial. Flans Legal Action The mayor did not take the announcement without protest and now, after consultation with his fellow excommunicants of the council, has announced he will file charges against the priest of “insulting public officials.” Few believe the matter actually ever will reach court. Under such charges the priest, if found guilty, could receive a fine and prison sentence. The feeling in Sasso Marconi is that Mayor Giorgi threatened the suit as. a na?tter of honor. The quarrel, if it is ever resolved, probably will come through negotiation, or change of position. Resoning Hurts Church The dispute has been going on for some time, but it reached its peak recently when the mayor pushed through a zoning plan that took church land for a parking lot and “green’ area” where nothing could be built. Don Dario had purchased a large area - directly behind his, church and had planned to build on the land a kindergarten, theater, youth house and soccer field with money obtained from the sale of other church property that bordered on an industrial area. “This zoning plan,” he explained, “is useless to everyone and brought about only by ani mosity to the church. They have decided to use part of the land behind the church as a parking lot, and declared most of the land I was going to sell to the industrialists a ‘green zone” that cannot be used for building. If I cannot sell the land, there can be no kindergarten and the other things planned.” Oldest Os Family Don Dario is 38 years old and comes from Bologna. He is the eldest of 11 children whose mother was killed in a World War II bombardment. A self-educated man, he is slightly balding, intense in manner and speech. Mayor Giorgi is a 48-year-old former resistance fighter, from Padua. He is a college graduate in philosophy and history, and wrote a prize-winning story, “The Bridge.” He is heavyset, darkhaired and highly articulate. Don Dario, with whom I spoke as he sat on a hard wooden chair

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Awash With Pigeons Feeding On Peanuts By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—Here it is almost spring again. I can tell it’s almost spring because the sap is beginning to rise in press agents, many of whom are dormant during the winter. The other day, for instance, there came fluttering into the office a robin-like notice that Alfred Hitchcock, the movie director, was coming to town. It said he planned to visit Lafayette Park near the White House and feed the pigeons from the famous bench that Bernard Baruch once used for an office. Reading that gave me the same sensation I get when I spy the first crocus, or inhale my first whiff of fertilizer. Awash With Pigeons On the appointed day, Hitchcock arrived at the park in a long limousine and deposited himself on the bench while a press agent sprinkled peanuts around him. In a trice, he was awash with pigeons. Some of the more astute observers at the scene were able to detect a tie-in between this ornithological tableau and Hitchcock’s new movie, the name of which momentarily escapes me. My own thoughts, however, were flying off in another direction. It occurred to me that we were witnessing the creation of a new status symbol. After this, nobody who is at all inetrested in keeping up appearances will dream of feeding the pigeons in the park unless he can afford to hire someone to sprinkle the peanuts for him. Another harbinger of spring came my way in a press release announcing that a new liqueur, created in Japan “from the fragile petals of the cherry blossom” would be introduced here during this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival. Fairly Reeling A sheet of vital statistics listed the liqueur as 40 proof, but the press release must have been close to 100 proof. By the time I had finished drinking in its heady hyperboles, I was fairly reeling. What intoxicated me was a narration telling how “the magic mood of Japan” had been captured in the liqueur so that the “gossamer enchantment” of the islands could be enjoyed in bottled formr “In the cherry blossom (yae sakura) forests of Japan in early April, you will find thousands of men, women and children strolling among the cherry trees picking the beautiful, fragrant, fragile blossoms . . . “They take these lovely blossoms home, place them on a wooden tray and pickle them with the addition of salt. For to the Japanese, the pickled cherry blossoms are an exotic delicacy...” This ancient tradition has now been carried a step further by a distillery, which “collects the most perfect and fragrant of these blossoms and through a process known only to themselves extracts from the blossoms the essence of the ‘yae sakura.’ ” Think of that! For years, people have pickled cherry blossoms and now away has been found for cherry blossoms to pickle people. in his sacristy, wrapped in an overcoat to keep warm in the unheated room, said, “The excommunication of the mayor and the councilmen was the culmination of a series of events, but what brought it to a head was the zoning plan. It was set up to do nothing more than hurt the church. Mayor Giorgi was sipping an American soft drink and smoking an American cigaret when I spoke with him in his comfortable apartment. Apart from the “curse,” he said, the excommunication didn’t bother him except as a matter of principle “because I never go to church anyway.” If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results. ■ te ! OLD CHAPEAU—Original French black-knit lace hat with draping veils, circa 1810, was among a collection of ancient fashions displayed at an antiques fifcow in New York

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