L’Italia was the Italian American newspaper in San Francisco, and Ettore Patrizi was its editor and publisher. The issue shown here displays a comparison of Italy’s “puny” colony in Africa compared to the huge colonial empire of Great Britain. Patrizi would eventually be accused of being a fascist leader in the West, and excluded from California. The three fencers were students at the Italian School in Fugazi Hall in San Francisco. The school, two other photos of which are on this panel, was considered a fascist training ground and closed with the onset of war. Nella Panelli, who gave us the photo, is the young fencer in the center.