The Secretary of the Party cited on the agenda of the General Command of the...

The Secretary of the Party cited on the agenda of the General Command of the GIL and proposed the Young Italian Giovanna Deiana, of the Federal Command of the GIL in Verona, with this motivation, Shot in the face during the enemy air raid on October 21 by a shrapnel of bomb that caused her total loss of sight and placed her in grave danger of life, showed great strength moral and of a living fascist spirit. Her first concern was the fate of the little brothers whom she, with a violent gesture, removed from danger, perhaps sparing them her own grave fate. Pure expression of our Italic youth and a shining example of homeland love, although tormented by the pain that the horrible wound produced her, she declared herself happy with stoic courage that fate had chosen her for the hard test, perhaps sparing a soldier or a military target. - I want the Duce to know - she said - that I will not cry and that everything will suffer for her love and that of the Motherland. Illustration for Courier Sunday, 15 December 1940.