Hyphenate Handbills

Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the United States, guarded by a group of police in plain clothes, walked side by side with the Chief Justice of the United States, in the Yale University Commencement Parade. He received an honorary degree from the University.

The police were considered necessary because on Commencement morning, 500 circulars were anonymously distributed on the Campus. These handbills protested in the name of the New Haven Italian Colony against honoring the prince: "To the Yale students:

"Gentlemen: While the Italian peninsula is under the reactionary storm of Mussolini, the despot impersonating Attila, Caligula, Nero and all the enemies of liberty, we, Italians residing here, strongly protest in the name of civilization against the Yale University entertaining and honoring Gelasio Caetani, a champion of Mussolini.

"Let it be known to the students of Yale University that the Italians of New Haven hold in contempt this representative of despotic and reactionary Government.

"The Lovers of Liberty."

Prince Caetani, suave diplomat, was totally unconcerned over the anti-Fascist attitude of his fellow-countrymen.