Ugo Betti - It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

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Betti, Ugo. Corruption in the Palace of Justice. The New Theatre of Europe, edited by Robert W. Corrigan, translated by Henry Reed, Delta, 1962.

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