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Another world war, perhaps in six months, perhaps in 20 years, will be the inevitable outcome of the grasping, suspicious attitude hovering over the Paris peace tables, Gaetano Salvemini, 73-year-old Lauro de Bosis lecturer in the History of Italian Civilization and ex-Italian government official, said in an interview yesterday...
...Salvemini, author of scores of treatises on various phases of Italian history, compared the current peace conference with these after World War I. "Wilson's 14 Joints cemented discussion and solution of problems," he said. "Almost all territorial problems were solved in the best possible way. Economic problems were almost all badly solved, but, little by little during the years that followed, they were approached with a sufficient amount of common sense. Until the depression of 1929 set in, they were on the way to satisfactory settlement...
Turning his discussion back to recent times, Salvemini declared that "the Atlantic Charter, which should have given a lead to the present peace negotiations, was a joke put together by Roosevelt and Churchill when they needed to deceive people all over the world to support the anti-German war eeffort. Now that Germany is defeated, nobody needs to take seriously the Atlantic Charter, or any other charter...
These will not be the only screen scenes of the University which the public will see this year. At present, the short, "Hymn of the Nations," featuring Arturo Toscannini, is being shown in New York. This film contains a scene from the classroom of Gaetano A. Salvemini, lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization...
Despite this, Salvemini is skeptical about the possibility of any fascist revival, or to use the current term: NeoFacism. "The horrible experience which Italy has been through will keep her wary of any such plans," he declared. "But, on the other hand, the mistakes made in Italy by England and the United States have made Democracy as unpopular as Fascism. Many Italians look at it very simply; Democracy is Fascism plus hypocrisy. Many Italians will next turn to Communism. They don't think very deeply about anything: Fascism failed, Democracy seems to be failing, let us try Communism...