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Friday, September 27, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Vienna. When tin good tidings
"Venice will resist Austria at Mania prepared in his house for
the weakling, ascend the throne, 1 he was diametrically oppoSed to
that Metternich had fled reached all costs. President Manin is in-
his departure, a crowd silently he would certainly have regretted everything Fascism and Totall-
the Venetians, a huge crowd as vested, for that purpose, with un-
waited for hours in front of the backing the House of Savoy. For tarianism stand for!
sembled under the governor's limited powers."
house to bid him farewell. He
window, shouting "Release Manin
For more than four months
and Tommaseo!" While another Venice, with her small army of could hear a man sigh: "Here Is
our good father, poor man. He
crowd, headed by Manin's 17- 18,000, heroically resisted the vast-
year-old son, Giorgio, stormed the ly superior Austrian forces which has suffered so much for me. God
bless him."
prison where he was kept and waged an amphibian war against
In Paris he lived a rather quiet
set him free. After a brief strug- the inhabitants of the lagoon,
life with his family. Shortly after
gle with the Austrian troops, the cutting off all routes of supply.
having renounced his staunch re-
Republic was proclaimed on March In this crucial time, perfect or-
publicanism in favor of an Ital-
22; Manin was elected president der reigned in the besieged city.
ian kingdom, he died in 1857, only
and moved into the Governor's No defeatism, no crimes ham-
forty-three years old. Under Mus-
Palace.
pered the military efforts of the solini's regime an upright man
It should be noted that one of 200,000 Venetians, who bore the like Daniele Mania, the descen-
the first acts of the new govern- brunt of Austria's war against dant of the Venetian ghetto,
ment was the proclamation that Italy with a ,cheerful countenance would have been incarcerated at
"the citizens of the united prov- long after Republican Rome had Liparo or another of Fascism's
inces of the Republic, whatever fallen, Mazzi was again in exile, torture chambers, and had he
be their religious confessions, and Garibaldi in retreat. As for lived to see Victor Emmanuel III,
none excepted, shall enjoy per_ Manin, he proved to be as great
feet equality of civil and political a ruler and general as any of the
rights." Almost simultaneously the men celebrated throughout the Rosh Hashonah Greetings
Chief Rabbi of Venice urged the ages. His compatriots recognized
Jews to join the National Guard his superb qualities, and there
and to defend the Republic. Two were not a few who, while dying
professing Jews were members of in the street, struck by a bullet
Manin's cabinet, Leone Pincherle, or succumbing to the cholera,
Minister of Agriculture and Com- scrawled on the nearest wall:
"Structural tl Industrial Engineers"
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merce, and Isacco Pesaro Mauro- Viva Manin! Wrote his Englith
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gonato, Minister of Finance. The biographer, Trevelyan: "M a n I n
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ously that when, after the city's ruler of men. Neither mortal dis-
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surrender, the Austrians exam- ease, nor bodily lassitude, nor the
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ined the state vaults, they found destruction of all he had hoped
there, to their surprise, a reserve for on earth, could prevent him
of 700,000 lire in gold and drafts from doing his duty to the end ofiummuciliMilummortommuconemin
on the banks of London and Tu- with the fiery energy he could
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
rin. "Never would I have be- always summon up at a crisis."
lieved that this scum of republi-
On August 2, the city had to
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cans could be so competent!" the surrender. Manin was among the
Austriah military governor ex- forty political leaders who, with
claimed, flabbergasted. Several their families, embarked upon a
Jews were members of the Na- French steamer that was to carry
tional Assembly, besi de a the them away, in accordance with
Al Pollak
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the terms of the armistice.
ly, Baron Giacomo Troves (who
Among
them
was
also
Leone
Pin-
was elected to the Assembly by
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TYler 4-98 9 8
the largest number of popular cherle, the Jewish Minister of
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votes after Manin and Tomma- Agriculture and Commerce. When
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Rabbi Salomone Olper, Benedetto
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