The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-09

is being aired nationwide.
 Both the Americar4 and Republi-
 can are being assailed in a national prominent Italian publication for
 'pure and openly English tenden- cies". One article, which is exciting : considerable comment about the { country, appeared recently in the Il Progresso Italo Americana of New York City.
 The Il ProgreSSo, unquestionably far removed from the influence of the "City Hall Gang" of Waterbury, { as the Republican and American ( would have its readers suspect as be- ing the instigators of the movement is placing the facts before its large number of readers.
 Meeting Planned a,~ Locally various organizations Will continue to meet and elect dele gates to the general protest meeting Members of the committee in charge have found facts as presented ln the Waterbury Republican at variance with the stories which appear in the American and suspect both inter- pretations of meetings held to oate as being somewhat colored to sult the combination papers policy. Tn other words the reports of the meet ings have been decidedly "garbled |, to copy the Republicans 1aVorl'e
 cry. od;+oa
 The Il Progresso's story creolVeo to "GCB.". it's official staff mem OCT reads as follows under the oaVe line of Waterbury, Conn.,
 Waterbury, ? (G. c, B.
 In these recent days the two
 American dailies; Waterbury Re-
 publican" and waterbury Amerl- o can" of pure and openly English
 tendencies, have surpassed every
 limit of decency and journalistic
 dignity, in the poisonous, mali
 cious and unjust campaign ot der
 ogation against the Fascist Gov
 ernment and against Il Duce. ,sa' The campaign is particularly , as.odiouS, because all ln favor ol s. England, against which Italy, &C., - cording to the views of the editor
 ialists of the two aforementioned "a papers, has committed the grave %.s- % error of bravely holding up Its 's head.
 's., Attitude Deplored ss Even during the Imperial Cam
 aaign. the same attitude was de-
 plored and protests were not lack ing.
 .ss ~ Now, MT. Pape, the inspiration for this unworthy anti-Italian
 barking, has turned about to ap-
 preciation with flowery phrases.
 But there continues to rage vehe-
 rnent resentment in minds per-
 ceiving all the hateful injustice of
 the attacks. His belated attack of at "conscience" fails to appease this :. resentment We must consider .-~-llow to retaliate in absolute man. rssaer for the base and biting criti- ,..cism. We must find the most ap-
 propriate and efficient methods to
 bring to the attention of MT. Pape
 the echo of the sentiment that
 prevails in the midst of the com-
 munity, in its regards to it's news
 papers to make him understand i. ."that American citizens of Italian .w extraction can defend the land of sss,ss their birth as efficiently as MT. -1Pape and his staff can defend =. theirs"
 --~ We have reported part of the z, Important and worthy delibera- tion, taken at preliminary meet i. ing of prominent personalities of our race. They have launched the idea, unanimously approved. to +s call an imposing colonial gath .. ering. with the participation of all go associations, to serve warning on Y, the enemies of Italy and of the Italians. They will give tangible ! sign, evident and positive, that
 one cannot with impunity offend
 the most civilized country in the
 world, through it's government; '. that Italians wherever they be, x are not at all resigned to suffer ! in silence the offenses of certain \ persons subServient to foreign in- | terests who dare to make horrible A proclamation of the rights guaran- <. teed by the American Constitu- z tion.
 First to raise their voices were ,. the Italian American Veterans ] towards whom no suspicion of lack Y of loyalty to America can be 2. raised, because of such loyalty