Word: axes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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UNDER THE AXE OF FASCISM-Gaetano Salvemini-Viking ($3). The case against Mussolini, forcefully presented by an exiled political scientist, now lecturing at Harvard...
...Conant has unfortunately (and perhaps because of finances necessarily) inspired too great a fear of God in his faculty. It is imperative that this situation be cleared up; men cannot work efficiently with a sharpened axe too close to their necks...
When the new British policy is framed, England will have to bear in mind the fact that Italy is slowly manoeuvering herself into a position of dominance in the Mediterranean, and that the Suez and Malta are dangerously near the Fascist axe. The days of the old-fashioned European Alliances and Alignments seem to be back to stay...
...power of the forces in the Italian government today. Professor Salvemini has spared no footnotes, and his conclusions are supported not by one casual quotation, but by pages of them. Despite these necessary appendages to a thorough work of scholarship, he has written no dull government text. "Under the Axe of Fascism" has just enough unrelenting prejudice, just enough biting sarcasm to give the books a lively, absorbing interest without distorting facts or disturbing its value...
...Under the Axe of Fascism" deserves a niche in the library beside the worthy volumes of Mr. Finer, Mr. Elwin, and Miss Haider. It is a distinct contribution to the enlightened understanding of present day Italy...