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Professor Gaetano Salvemini, expert on Italian history, told the War Institute of 50 newspaper editors yesterday that the overwhelming majority of Italians hate Mussolini. "Most of them are fifth columnists," he said, "and Mussolini has raised the fifth column...
Professor Salvemini declared that, although an underground movement exists in both Germany and Italy, the Italian one is much farther advanced. He divided the movements into two groups, the Communists, who he said were well organized, but not so numerous, and the lovers of democracy, who, though more sizable a body, were uncoordinated...
...Lowell House, the realization that this was a special place and a special time hit you very quickly. There, trudging along the walks in deep preoccupation, was the antifascist scholar in exile, Gaetano Salvemini, and there was the elegant figure of Heinrich Bruning, the former chancellor of Germany, forced to leave in 1934 and on the Harvard faculty since 1936. We weren't in Kansas anymore, Toto, nor in Oswego County, N.Y., which was more to the point...
This lectureship was founded by Ruth Draper in 1938 in memory of Lauro de Bosis for the appointment of lecturers who would "trace the influence and illuminate the gifts which Italian culture has given to the world." The first appointee was Professor Gaetano Salvemini, then in exile. He received the stipend until his return to his professorship at the University of Florence after...
...Salvemini's biography, personal notes, memories, and anecdotes would be very useful. His editors would be grateful if friends, acquaintances, former pupils or colleagues were to write any anecdote, impression or story relating to him which may be used to complete a picture of his many-sided nature...