President. "Amici attenti." These are the opening words in the play "Fiorello" when Fiorello LaGuardia is first campaigning for Congress in 1916. The setand I saw it first in New Yorkis a wonderful set. As he is campaigning. to give the sense of ethnic campaigning. he has a little box and they put it on the left of the stage. He stands up. and as he is speaking to Italian immigrants. he says. "Amici attenti. Trieste must be free as we must be free." Trieste was then a port disputed between what is now Italy and what we used to call Yugoslavia. It was then part of the AustroHungarian Empire.
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