THE PRESS

Professor Salvemini has lost no time in replaying to the story in the Ialian press implicating him in a bomb explosion in St. Peter's last Summer. He has cabled to II Duce demanding that he be tried and convicted "in absentia" and that the Italian Government then apply for his extradition from the United States. He told the newspaper men that the addition of his name to the list of six men hitherto mentioned in connection with the crime was apparently an after-thought on the part of the Italian Government.

The challenge was issued at Harvard, where Professor Salvemini teaches Italian literature. He is one of a fairly numerous class of foreign scholars who have been cast out from their own country by the rise of dictatorship and have found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm the opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron broom of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler has swept out of their native lands. New York Times.