Word: salvemini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm policy of coalition with England and France as the only means of averting war was advocated by Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro De Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, speaking at the bi-weekly meeting of the Foreign Policy Association Saturday. He maintained that the dictatorships would soon collapse before such a coalition of the democratic powers since these "gangster" countries could not hope to wage a successful war against a force as strong as this...
...Salvemini went on to state that England and France are not real democracies, but, since they constitute the least threat to our national security, we must align ourselves with them for protection against the dictatorships...
...Salvemini sees a definite cooperation in the policies of Mussolini and the British Prime Minister. "Chamberlain needs to appear to the British electorate under the garb of the angel of peace . . . Mussolini, by raising a row with the French allows Chamberlain to intervene as a peacemaker...
Nothing is simpler to understand than II Duce's colonial policy, Salvemini claims, "since the Italian dictator has to do something to keep his subjects in a constant state of expectation. . . Ethiopia is just the opposite of an asset to Italy...
...visiting lecturer at the University since 1934, Salvemini taught in Italy before Mussolini's rise to power forced the outspoken critic of Fascism to flee his native land