Word: gaetano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indignation at the sensational headlines printed by the Boston papers this week announcing the complete collapse of Benito Mussolini, was expressed by Professor Gaetano Salvemini, former Italian citizen and bitter enemy of Fascism since the march on Rome...
...Royalty has become a thing of the past in Italy, and a democratic republic should be set up there following the war," declared Gaetano Salvemini, lecturer in Italian civilization and former Italian citizen. The people have discredited the King, the royal family, and the Duce, who is generally thought to be a finished...
...Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said she: "I may have jokingly said I wanted another season of foxhunting here in America"; but she denied ever remarking that the Nazis came from, and would return to, the gutter. Meantime in Manhattan American-born Cecil White, wife of Gaetano Vecchiotti, Italian Consul General, looked forward to expulsion with pleasure, singsonged: "I'm glad to go, I'm glad to go; we haven't been treated very well here, you know...
While thousands of internationally-minded American citizens back in 1925 were voicing their admiration of "what that fellow Mussolini has done for Italy," a little grey-bearded professor named Gaetano Salvemini was fighting a personal duel with II Duce and warning the world of Fascism...
Today, 15 years later, Gaetano Salvemini is a member of the Harvard Faculty. His prophecies concerning the danger of totalitarianism have been brought home to an American public which once spoke in tolerant fashion of European Fascists. As a result, Dr. Salvemini has gained the reputation of knowing whereof he speaks...