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...RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE-Guglielmo Ferrero-Putnam...
...says Italy's No.1 Historian, exiled Guglielmo Ferrero, who wrote this new history of the Congress of Vienna...
...Stockholm like to strike a delicate balance between diplomacy and recognition of literary merit. Once it decided that Italy was due for an award, the Nobel Prize Committee was of necessity limited in its choice to four men: Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, Estheticist Benedetto Croce, Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, Playwright Pirandello. Drama lovers the world over were highly pleased at the final selection...
...liberty exists in fascist Italy," continued Salvemini. "Toscanini is beaten in Milan for refusing to play the fascist anthem. Ferrero, the historian, lives in exile in Geneva. And Croce is grossly insulted for uttering sentiments displeasing to the fascists while lecturing at Oxford. Today he can not write on political topics...
Departing from Manhattan for Italy, famed Historian Guglielmo Ferrero said to interviewers: "I found great progress in America's intellectual views. There is a hunger for facts. It may be traced chiefly to your public schools and colleges and to your magnificent system of newspapers...