Word: annunzio
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...impossible for me to pass by your interesting editorial on Gabriele D'Annunzio without writing you these few words, for by all means I do not wish Harvard men to have that impression of the poet that you have given them until they have looked a little deeper into the matter...
...frankly admit that D'Annunzio has been "rebuffed by the government at Rome"; but there is a very important reason why he has only been rebuffed and not attacked, and that is because he is backed heart and soul by the Italian people and the Italian army. . .D'Annunbio entered Flume last September, yet in spite of many threats from the Allied governments, he is still there with his "Arditi," the flower of the Italian army. Who has supported him and his followers if not the Italian people? Every day contributions have been pouring into Flume not only from...
...words attributed to D'Annunzio in your editorial originated from the correspondent of the Associated Press at Flume. He is the same man who said that D'Annunzio had been assassinated, the same man who has told us more than 15 times that the Flumans are disgusted with D'Annunzio and that his "tenure of control of Flume" is "a matter of a few weeks at the most"; in short, he is the same man who has been so instrumental in conducting a campaign of slander against Italy and anything Italian. I deeply regret that the CRIMSON is humming...
When Gabriele D'Annunzio seized Flume, he saw himself as a second Garlbaldi and imagined that his little band of adventurers would occupy as dramatic a place in history as the thousand "Red Shirts" who had conquered Naples 60 years before. Today, uncompromisingly opposed by the Great Powers, rebuffed by the government at Rome, and with his tenure of control of Flume but a matter of weeks at most, the Italian soldier-poet speaks with the same old air of bravado...
...Poor D'Annunzio! As a pre-war poet he was a great success, as an aviator his daring raid over Vienna will rank with the most thrilling exploits of the war, but as a post-war dictator who holds that he is more powerful than the Allies, his inevitable fate is disillusionment...