The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

from the automobile, walked into the city hall and then reappeared at the second floor window. He lifted his hand in the fascist salute to the crowd in the plaza.
 Then he went into the council chamber where he was greeted by Mayor James J. Walker.
 Walker, notoriously tardy, was on time and called attention to the fact, adding he knew the Italian foreign minister had to take train to Philadelphia. Walker spoke of the cultural background the United States had obtained from Italy, traced Grandi's brilliant career in the army and in service of the fas- cist state and then spoke of re- ported threats against Grandi in the United States, calling them propaganda"
 INT Grandi, if you are not safe in New York city then I am going to move" the mayor said.
 In answer to Walkers welcome Grandi said:
 "This marvellous city gives the impression of having been built in order to show the power of ctvili- zation, the greatness of human la- bor and the breadth of vision of the modern world. It seems to have been built as an indication of the power which America displays and of the faith America puts into her enterprises"
 He said he appreciated the well come and that his visit was in a good cause.-the cause of peace Ia ttxr n VA vnaf{nnGb
 The city's peace time law en- forcement army kept attachments with the party of the youthful Italian foreign minister from the moment of its arrival from Wash ington.
 Additional guards were stationed about the Wall street offices of J. P. Morgan & Co, international financiers, after rumors the quar- ters would be bombed during Grandi's visit there.
 The city's guard for the foreign statesman's party was on duty from the point of arrival in Jersey City aboard the tug Macon, and on lower Manhattan island across the Hudson where the visitors were to first set foot in New York.
 And uniformed police and plain clothesmen remained along the route of the parade from early morning until departure of Grandi and his official party for Phila- delphia before noon.
 All the unusual precautions re- suited from anti-fascist threats and rumors of threats. They were or- dered by Police Commissioners Null rooney.
 A demonstration had been re- ported planned at city hall yester- day during the visit of an anti fascist group which protested against the city's official reception to its distinguished guest. None developed, although police and members of the bomb squad were prepared.
 Other rumors reported the plot to bomb the Morgan offices in the building bombed disastrously II years ago. Guards were massed there all afternoon and were to re- main until late to-day, if not longer.
 Morgan had returned from Eu- rope only two days ago, and had received a constant stream of dis tinguished visitors during the day. including owen D. Young, Charles c. Mitchell and Paul M. Warburg.
 At city hall, the anti-fascists left their formal protest against the scheduled official reception which read in part:
 We protest against an official welcome to Signor Grandi. In do- ing so we are not conscious of any discourtesy to a friendly people for Signor Grandi does not repre- sent the Italian people but a tyran- ny which has been imposed upon them by most brutal methods"
 The reception to which the anti fascists objected included the usual parade up Broadway with Mayor Walker, presentation of a gold medal, ceremonies in the alderman ic chamber where GrandPs escort was named as Dr Elmer Ellsworth Brown, chancellor of New York university; brief speeches by Walk CT and Grandi, both broadcast; and the return to the tug Macon and the special train across the river in Jersey City.
 After the city hall reception the official party re-entered the motor cars for reutrn trip down Broad way. There were new cheers for the smiling Italian foreign minis ter. At the Battery Grandi re- entered the Macon which sailed shortly after II a. m. for Jersey City, where Grandi will board a special train for the trip to Phila- delphia.
 Washington, Nov 20-(UP)- Signora Grandi, wife of the Italian foreign minister, left here by train at 10 a. m. to-day to join her hus- band in Philadelphia.
 She will arrive in Philadelphia at 12:45 p. m. and make her head quarters at the Bellevue Stratford hotel.
 Explosion in Philadelphia
 Philadelphia, Nov 20-(UP)- An explosion in the fashionable Chestnut Hill district of the city shortly before midnight shattered windows in houses many blocks away, and awoke Marquis A. Fer. rn nta Italian 0anaul gauapaf xyhA