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Charging a British deal with the Badoglio government to dominate Italian-railroads for nine years after the conclusion of peace, Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, decried "foreign interference in Italy," and urged, "she must be allowed to rebuild herself under her own free government...
...Gaciano Salvemini, Professor Crane Brinton '19, and Edmund Stevens will speak tonight on "Italy, the Great Powers, and the Future," at a forum to be held in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. The forum will be sponsored by the Harvard Forum, the Radcliffe League for Democracy, and the International Club...
...Salvemini offered his solution to the problem of Trieste by proposing a plebiscite to determine to which country it should be annexed. "Neither Yugoslavia nor Italy has a right to the city. It is not a slave woman to be traded back and forth between the country which has the best army at one time and that which has it at another...
This agreement, Salvemini declared, is the reason why the Russians are not making serious attempts to dominate Italy, but acknowledge it as a British sphere of influence. In spite of this he claimed that because of the mistakes of the occupational forces, democracy is discrediting itself. The average Italian, he said, now defines democracy erroneously as "Fascism plus hypocrisy...
Unlike the problem of German re-education, Salvemini stated that the corresponding problem in Italy was an overestimated one. "Fascism was for the most part a superficial organization," he added, "and you will find that Italian youth, contrasted to German youth, fought against the fascist government by joining the partisans in large numbers...