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. Boston ; “S | O - 10 = (e O . Less than six months ago I visited. Italy. It was both a stimulating and devressing trip. Rome has great lessons. to teach the visitor who is willing to learn, One contemplates the historical grandeur ~ the ruins, the monuments, the art - and knows that imperialism is at best a short-lived joyride for any nation, A visit to the catacombs - meetin: places and surial laces of Christian martyrs’ drives home the lesson that ideas and faiths can't be suprressed by force and violence and intimidation. : * Yes, there are creat lessons to be learned in Rome, and I wish that some of our policy-makers could read thems When I hear that our State Jeportment will cut off aid to the Itelian neovle, if they aren't satisfied with the election results, I think of little rooms in the workers settlement at Tibortino and a little room in a row of little rooms in rnich I found a mother and eignt children, including a tiny infant. I think of the one bed, the tin levator, | ani the mother's stor” of her five other children - all ead. “zn it ~ossibly be that we would cut off aid to this faily if the fat-.-r votcs Com:unist or socialist? That's vat our, officials have said, I know these officials don't voice the heart. of the American people. In the srastevere section of Rowe I snoke to one aiter another of the women and vorkers. I listened to stories of their diets. What was more shocking, I saw the effects of their diets and Living conditions. When they ° told me they were Socialists or Comiunist , I gust couldn't think of them as the subverters of freedom. Was 44 unreasonable to believe that they were the victims of the real subverters of freedom? Today i reed thet a leftist victory in the “talian elections is a crave danger to use I rea’ that if these eorle cast t’:cir votes for the Comzunists and ocialists, they will be contributin: to "Russian agrression't I reac that such votes will be a reason for the draft and compulsory military trsinin- and nev bombers here in the United States. | (More) occa gn eran RE REND TRIS TI EI cans