with early Fascism, initiated by Mussolini a Newspaper Editor, and Socialist
that started with great promise and possibilities, embraced by left and
right, not only including members of the Jewish Community, but installing a
number at elevated positions.
Indro wrote about it in his
1945 novel "Qui Non Riposano" (Here They Do Not
Rest), which explored the
disillusionment of early fascist sympathizers.
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INDRO MONTANELLI:
INDEPENDENT-MINDED ITALIAN
JOURNALIST
Los Angeles Times
July 24, 2001
Indro Montanelli, 92, a onetime
fascist who became an icon of the right as a
noted Italian journalist,
died Sunday in Milan, Italy.
Montanelli was recognized
as a World Press Freedom Hero last year by the
International Press Institute.
He displayed unusual independence over his six
decades as a journalist,
often clashing with his bosses at the Milan daily
newspapers Il Giornale and
Corriere della Sera.
A staunch anticommunist,
he was a firm supporter of Italian fascism and
volunteered to fight in
Mussolini's war of conquest in Ethiopia in the 1930s.
Later, he worked as a war
correspondent, covering conflicts in Spain,
Finland, Norway, Albania
and Greece.
His objectivity in covering
the Spanish Civil War made him unpopular with the
ruling fascists.
In 1943, during World War
II, Montanelli was imprisoned by the Nazis in Milan
and sentenced to death for
antifascism. He managed to escape and flee to
Switzerland.
He wrote about the period
in his 1945 novel "Qui Non Riposano" (Here They Do
Not Rest), which explored
the disillusionment of early fascist sympathizers.
