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...Gaetano Salvemini, spade-bearded, spade-calling onetime anti-Fascist Italian legislator, Harvard historian (What to Do with Italy; TIME, Sept. 13), now teaching at University of California's Berkeley campus, pinned another of his poison-ivy notices on the laurel & olive of U.S. foreign policy. "Roosevelt and Hull know less about Europe than I know about Kentucky," he told West Coast newspapermen. "To be very frank, the policies of Roosevelt and Churchill so far as Europe goes are crazy. They don't know anything about it, and have poor advisers." Two days later the Hollywood Writers' Mobilization...
They had sought a guarantee that he would not "attack the United Nations or the policies of the U.S. as embodied in the Atlantic Charter and the Teheran agreement." Snorted 70-year-old Salvemini: "They can keep their money and go to hell. I will keep my self-respect...
...Keep your money and go to hell" exclaimed Gaciano Salvemini, Lauro do Basis lecturer in the history of Italian civilization, after the Hollywood Writers Congress had cancelled his lecture for criticizing President Roosevelt's handling of Italian politics...
...Salvemini, who calls himself an 18th century liberal, is teaching history at the University of California during the present term. He was a member of the Italian Parliament from 1919 to 1921 and was exiled in 1925 by Mussolini for his liberal views...
This statement precipitated a general attack upon the two major points of Fernsworth's speech. His remark about the danger of American bureaucracy drew forth even more vehement arguments than the aforementioned one on British governmental training. Dr. Salvemini took little part in this discussion...