"The Black Bird"

Even in Italy there is one harsh voice which caws and carps at Fascismo and its Duce--the voice of The Black Bird.

How this most virulent of anti-Fascist news organs is distributed throughout Italy was revealed last week at Baltimore, U. S. A., by its editor, spruce Dr. Vincenzo Nitti, son of the exiled onetime Prime Minister Francesco Nitti who now resides in Paris.

The Black Bird, explained visiting Editor Nitti, is printed at Paris in editions of 12,000 on thinnest India paper. Once in an envelope an issue of this news organ can no more be detected in the mail than a sheet of common note paper. Thus the entire edition of 12,000 copies is mailed into Italy, despite the ban on anti-Fascist literature. As an added precaution, each edition is mailed outside of Paris, from a city which changes from week to week.

Commenting generally, Dr. Nitti said: "The wealthy class in America . . . approve of Fascismo because, in their opinion, it is a sort of strike breaker and wage reducer. . . . They do not look further."