Word: salvemini
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...Gaetano Salvemini, lecturer in History, declared yesterday that Italy did not enter the war last September only because her army was in a state of "utter destitution...
...Italian supplied had ben depleted during the wars in Ethiopia and Spain, and what remained were squandered in Albania, Salvemini said. Fear of a French attack forced Mussolini to abstain from fighting. The British blockade of Italian imports has made it exceedingly difficult for the army to recoup its materiel losses...
...Salvemini discounted the possibility of a rupture between the Duce and Hitler as a result of an ideological clash after the Russo-German treaty; "Mussolini is never deterred by ideology," he said...
Emphasizing that the German-Italian treaty still survives, Salvemini added that a long war and the eventuality of a German victory may cause Mussolini to join Hitler in order to share in the spoils. "Mussolini remains benevolently neutral toward the German cause," he concluded...
...Salvemini went on to state that England and France are not real democracies, but, since they constitute the least threat to our national security, we must align ourselves with them for protection against the dictatorships...