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From exile-in France, then England, finally the U.S.-Carlo Sforza crusaded against Benito Mussolini ("a demagogue, a charlatan, a cheap egocentric, a quisling of Hitler") and Fascismo ("an artificial and corrupt house of cards which will fall some day in a few hours"). A patient, humane man, with historical perspective, he believed that his nation had strayed into its most tragic hour, but that in good time the countrymen of Dante and Galileo, Michelangelo and Mazzini, Verdi and Ferrero, would come out all right. "They are grand, they are grand!" he said as the little people of Italy turned...
...Italians looked to him as a leader, chose him last summer as one of the heads of the liberal Action Party that now, under the home-front guidance of doughty Emilio Lussu, is one of the united underground groups struggling to shape Italy's destiny. When chafing Carlo Sforza last week showed Cordell Hull an urgent summons from the Italian underground, the Secretary of State gave permission for the trip home. Said Cordell Hull: "I see, your moral duty is to go. We will be glad if you do. But, of course, you go as a private citizen, without...
Hour of Hope. Count Sforza shaped a program for Italy...
...unanimity of the war effort, it is necessary to put the problem of the King and his family on ice for the duration." Carlo Sforza agreed with his old friend, Philosopher Benedetto Croce, who had told an American correspondent in southern Italy that the Royal Family was "ignoble." Said Carlo Sforza: "The greatest mistake of Allied policy is to support the discredited House of Savoy. An attempt by the Allies to force the monarchy on the nation, or to repair its prestige, will cause resentment and future trouble...
...soon as the task of liberation permits, there must be free elections. I do not doubt that Italians will vote for a progressive republic." Carlo Sforza had an old man's vision: "When the time comes, there must first be agrarian reform, an end of landless peasants and great estates. The economy of Italy might well be patterned after that of prewar Czecho-Slovakia. A thriving Catholic nation of small landowners and busy workers is the best bulwark against communism...