Italy

The Columbia Broadcasting System presents One World Flight. We are listening to a street crowd in Rome, Italy, shouting into the microphone of Norman Corwin, CBS playwright producer, during his visit to Italy in the course of his 37,000

mile global tour as first winner of the One World Flight Award. These voices are among several authentic sounds and interviews recorded inside Italy. To be heard on this seventh of a series of thirteen broadcasts, based on Mr. Corwin's trip.

We want to be known for the first time, we want peace and work. If there is peace and work, there will be no war. Why does he think this condition exists?

This is Norman Corwin. Not far from where these Romans crowded about us last summer, demanding work, crying for bread and peace, not far from here in another time of hunger and unemployment. Benito Mussolini offered a way out.

He stood on the balcony of the Palazzo Venetia just up the street away and led them to believe that war was glorious, that democracy was a flop, that if they just handed over their liberties and kept their mouth shut, They would all be rich and well fed and happy.

He led them to war for fascism against Ethiopians and Spanish loyalists against a collapsing France and finally against us and our allies. Now their duché, their empire and a good many of their relatives and friends were dead.

A lot of their country was smashed up, their jobs were thinned out, and their food was low. They had turned in desperation to fascism a generation ago, and now, after disaster heaped upon disaster, they were back in desperation.