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- 3 Jan [1945] (Creation)
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2 items: 2 newspaper clippings.
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'Italian Count's Offence', "The Manchester Guardian", 3 Jan 1945 [appearing in the edition printed 4 Jan]: regarding the sentencing of Morra di Lavriano by an Allied Court to three months' imprisonment for addressing a public meeting in Cortona; the last paragraph describes him as 'one of the oldest friends of England in Italy', neither 'a public orator nor a political agitator but a man of letters'. Under the by-line of 'our own Correspondent': [Sylvia Sprigge?]
'Italian Leaders under Arrest? Public-Speech charges', "The Manchester Guardian", 25 May 1945 [appearing in the edition printed 26 May 1926]: regarding reports that Pietro Nenni and Signor Togliati have been arrested by the Allied military authorities for giving public political speeches in territory under Allied military rule; mentions the arrest of Morra di Lavriano earlier in the year.