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Chapter One: Introduction
CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF IL DUCE TRACING POLITICAL TRENDS IN THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN MEDIA DURING THE EARLY YEARS OF FASCISM by Ryan J. Antonucci Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the History Program YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY August, 2013 Changing Perceptions of il Duce Tracing Political Trends in the Italian-American Media during the Early Years of Fascism Ryan J. Antonucci I hereby release this thesis to the public. I understand that this thesis will be made available from the OhioLINK ETD Center and the Maag Library Circulation Desk for public access. I also authorize the University or other individuals to make copies of this thesis as needed for scholarly research. Signature: Ryan J. Antonucci, Student Date Approvals: Dr. David Simonelli, Thesis Advisor Date Dr. Brian Bonhomme, Committee Member Date Dr. Martha Pallante, Committee Member Date Dr. Carla Simonini, Committee Member Date Dr. Salvatore A. Sanders, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Date Ryan J. Antonucci © 2013 iii ABSTRACT Scholars of Italian-American history have traditionally asserted that the ethnic community’s media during the 1920s and 1930s was pro-Fascist leaning. This thesis challenges that narrative by proving that moderate, and often ambivalent, opinions existed at one time, and the shift to a philo-Fascist position was an active process. Using a survey of six Italian-language sources from diverse cities during the inauguration of Benito Mussolini’s regime, research shows that interpretations varied significantly. One of the newspapers, Il Cittadino Italo-Americano (Youngstown, Ohio) is then used as a case study to better understand why events in Italy were interpreted in certain ways. -
Sicily and the Surrender of Italy
United States Army in World War II Mediterranean Theater of Operations Sicily and the Surrender of Italy by Albert N. Garland and Howard McGaw Smyth Assisted by Martin Blumenson CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY UNITED STATES ARMY WASHINGTON, D.C., 1993 Chapter XIV The Climax Sardinia Versus the Mainland The successful invasion of Sicily clarified strategic problems and enabled the Allies to turn from debate to decision. The Combined Chiefs of Staff at the TRIDENT Conference in May had directed General Eisenhower to knock Italy out of the war and contain the maximum number of German forces, but they had not told him how. Preparing to launch operations beyond the Sicilian Campaign, AFHQ had developed several outline plans: BUTTRESS, invasion of the Italian toe by the British 10 Corps; GOBLET, a thrust at the ball of the Italian foot by the British 5 Corps; BRIMSTONE, invasion of Sardinia; and FIREBRAND, invasion of Corsica. But a firm decision on the specific course of action to be taken was still lacking.1 The four plans, Eisenhower had explained to Churchill during the Algiers meetings in June, pointed to two broad alternative courses. If the Axis resisted vigorously in Sicily, thereby forecasting high Italian morale and a bitter and protracted struggle for the Allies, then BRIMSTONE and FIREBRAND, insular operations, were preferable. Otherwise, operations on the Italian mainland were more promising. Despite Churchill's articulate enthusiasm for the latter course, Eisenhower had made no commitment. He awaited the factual evidence to be furnished in Sicily. Meanwhile, the Americans and British continued to argue over strategy. -
Inventing the Lesser Evil in Italy and Brazil
Fascist Fiction: Inventing the Lesser Evil in Italy and Brazil by Giulia Riccò Department of Romance Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Lamonte Aidoo, Supervisor ___________________________ Roberto Dainotto ___________________________ Nicola Gavioli ___________________________ Saskia Ziolkowski Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University 2019 i v ABSTRACT Fascist Fiction: Inventing the Lesser Evil in Italy and Brazil by Giulia Riccò Department of Romance Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Lamonte Aidoo, Supervisor ___________________________ Roberto Dainotto ___________________________ Nicola Gavioli ___________________________ Saskia Ziolkowski An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Romance Studies in the Graduate School of Duke University 2019 Copyright by Giulia Riccò 2019 Abstract My dissertation, Fascist Fiction: Inventing the Lesser Evil in Italy and Brazil, accounts for the resilience of fascism by tracing the rhetoric of the “lesser evil”—a discursive practice constitutive of fascism—through contemporary politics and literature in Italy and Brazil. By invoking the looming presence of a graver, more insidious threat the rhetoric of the lesser evil legitimizes fascist violence against dissidents and vulnerable populations. Through an analysis of texts by fascist philosopher Giovanni Gentile and his Brazilian counterpart Miguel Reale, I reveal that the rhetoric of the lesser evil is a constitutive part of fascist discourse and that in Italy and Brazil this aspect of fascist doctrine met a favorable combination of subjective and objective conditions which has allowed it to thrive within democratic structures. -
Ruling Elites.Indb
António Costa Pinto is a professor Dictators do not rule alone, and a governing elite stratum is always ANTÓNIO COSTA PINTO After the so-called ‘third wave’ of de- of politics and contemporary Euro- formed below them. This book explores an underdeveloped area in the study ANTÓNIO COSTA PINTO mocratisation at the end of the 20th pean history at the Institute of Social of fascism: the structure of power. The old and rich tradition of elite studies Edited by century had significantly increased the Sciences, University of Lisbon. He has can tell us much about the structure and operation of political power in the number of democracies in the world, been a visiting professor at Stanford dictatorships associated with fascism, whether through the characterisation of the survival of many dictatorships has University (1993) Georgetown Uni- had an important impact. Taking as the modes of political elite recruitment, or by the type of leadership, and the versity (2004), a senior associate mem- starting point the dictatorships that ber at St Antony’s College, Oxford relative power of the political institutions in the new dictatorial system. emerged since the beginning of the University (1995) and a senior visiting Analyzing four dictatorships associated with fascism (Fascist Italy, Nazi 20th century, but mainly those that fellow at Princeton University (1996) Germany, Salazar’s Portugal and Franco’s Spain), the book investigates the were institutionalised after 1945, the and at the University of California, dictator-cabinet-single party triad from -
Archival Sources
ARCHIVAL SOURCES League of Nations Archives, Library of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (LoN Archives): – Registry Files – Section Files – Personal Papers: Alexander Loveday; Thanassis Aghnides; Sean Lester; Arthur Salter; Joseph Avenol; Eric Drummond Archivio Storico Diplomatico del Ministero Affari Esteri, Rome, Italy (ASMAE) – Archivi del Gabinetto e della Segreteria Generale (1923–1943) – Serie affari politici (1931–1945) – Società delle Nazioni – Archivi delle rappresentanze diplomatiche a Londra (1861–1950) – Ministero Cultura Popolare (1920–1944) – Archivio conferenze (1916–1934) – Archivio del Contenzioso Diplomatico – Archivi del Personale – Personal Papers: Dino Grandi; Fulvio Suvich; Luigi Aldovrandi-Marescotti © The Author(s) 2016 273 E. Tollardo, Fascist Italy and the League of Nations, 1922–1935, DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95028-7 274 ARCHIVAL SOURCES Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome, Italy (ACS) – Segreteria particolare del Duce: Carteggio Riservato – Segreteria particolare del Duce: Carteggio Ordinario – Presidenza Consiglio dei Ministri – Ministero degli Interni, Divisione Generale Pubblica Sicurezza: Serie Annuali – Ministero degli Interni, Divisione Generale Pubblica Sicurezza, Divisione Polizia Politica: fascicoli personali e per materia – Ministero degli Interni, Divisione Generale Pubblica Sicurezza: Interpol – Ministero degli Interni: Associazioni – Archivi Fascisti, Cassetta di Zinco – Ministero Cultura Popolare – Casellario Politico Centrale – Ministero degli Interni, Divisione Generale Sanità – Personal -
The United States and Fascist Italy: the Rise of American Finance in Europe
84 • Italian American Review 8.1 • Winter 2018 The United States and Fascist Italy: The Rise of American Finance in Europe. By Gian Giacomo Migone. With a preface and translated by Molly Tambor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015; originally published in Italian in 1980. 405 pages. Gian Giacomo Migone has written a powerful argument for the continuities of U.S. economic policy from the post–World War I period to the post–World War II period, a primary goal of which was the stabilization of Europe as an outlet for U.S. capital and manufactured goods. In this project, Mussolini was a key component. Instead of viewing him as the destroyer of democracy in Italy, many Americans saw him as the guarantor of stability and a willing partner in U.S. capitalist expansion in the 1920s. This commitment required peace, which Mussolini dutifully offered, contrary to all his bellicose rhetoric, because he needed U.S. investment to stabilize his fledgling dictatorship. It was only the Depression and the contraction of U.S. economic involvement in Europe that broke this close relationship and led Italy down the path of imperialism and war. Migone’s argument is premised on the fact that after World War I the United States needed to keep expanding its production and needed outlets for its excess capital. For this to happen, Europe had to be stabilized, debts owed to the United States had to be settled, and any nationalist agendas, specifically French desires to keep Germany weak, had to be eliminated. Europe, and specifically Italy, went along with this U.S. -
Delitto Matteotti. Parla Il Figlio: “Fu Uno Sporco Affare Di Petrolio; Mussolini Non Aveva Alcun Interesse a Farlo Uccidere”
Delitto Matteotti. Parla il figlio: “Fu uno sporco affare di petrolio; Mussolini non aveva alcun interesse a farlo uccidere” L’uscita recente di alcune pubblicazioni sull’argomento ci spingono a riproporre questo dossier composto da più articoli, dossier che comincia con questa intervista a cura di Marcello Staglieno e pubblicata sul numero di Storia illustrata, n.336 (novembre 1985), p.54-61 FU UNO SPORCO AFFARE DI PETROLIO “L’assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti non fu un delitto politico, ma affaristico. Mussolini non aveva alcun interesse a farlo uccidere” dice il figlio del deputato socialista. “Sotto c’era uno scandalo di petrolio e la longa manus della corona. La verità verrà presto a galla”. Ciò che sembra più degno d’attenzione del libro di memorie di Matteo Matteotti (Quei vent’anni. Dal fascismo all’Italia che cambia, edito da Rusconi) è l’ultimo capitolo. Capitolo che, sulla base di nuovi elementi (ricollegabili a cose che vennero scritte nel 1924 e in anni successivi), sembra aprire inquietanti interrogativi sull’assassinio di Giacomo Matteotti. Questi: Vittorio Emanuele III ebbe una parte decisiva nel delitto? Il Re era implicato in quello “scandalo dei petroli” (l’affare Sinclair) di cui parlò e straparlò la stampa del tempo e, scoperto da Matteotti, manovrò per assassinarlo? In proposito, l’ultimo capitolo del libro è reticente: si limita a collegare (sempre naturalmente sul piano dell’ipotesi) l’uccisione di Giacomo Matteotti allo scandalo Sinclair. Invito Matteo Matteotti ad essere più esplicito. “Procediamo con ordine. Un pomeriggio del marzo 1978, m’incontro qui in Roma”, dice Matteo Matteotti, “con un anziano mutilato di guerra venuto apposta da Firenze, Antonio Piron. -
ITALY: Five Fascists
Da “Time”, 6 settembre 1943 ITALY: Five Fascists Fascismo's onetime bosses did not give up easily. Around five of them swirled report and rumor: Dead Fascist. Handsome, bemedaled Ettore Muti had been the "incarnation of Fascismo's warlike spirit," according to Notizie di Roma. Lieutenant colonel and "ace" of the air force, he had served in Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece. He had been Party secretary when Italy entered World War II. Now the Badoglio Government, pressing its purge of blackshirts, charged him with graft. Reported the Rome radio: Ettore Muti, whipping out a revolver, resisted arrest by the carabinieri. In a wood on Rome's outskirts a fusillade crackled. Ettore Muti fell dead. Die-Hard Fascist. Swarthy, vituperative Roberto Farinacci had been Fascismo's hellion. He had ranted against the democracies, baited Israel and the Church, flayed Fascist weaklings. Ex-Party secretary and ex-minister of state, he had escaped to Germany after Benito Mussolini's fall. Now, in exile, he was apparently building a Fascist Iron Guard. A Swiss rumor said that Roberto Farinacci had clandestine Nazi help, that he plotted a coup to restore blackshirt power, that he would become pezzo grosso (big shot) of northern Italy once the Germans openly took hold of the Po Valley. Craven Fascist. Tough, demagogic Carlo Scorza had been Fascismo's No. 1 purger. Up & down his Tuscan territory, his ghenga (corruption of "gang") had bullied and blackmailed. He had amassed wealth, yet had denounced the wartime "fat and rich." Now, said a Bern report, Carlo Scorza wrote from prison to Vittorio Emanuele, offering his services to the crown. -
Congressional R.Ecor.D-House 1973
1926 CONGRESSIONAL R.ECOR.D-HOUSE 1973 ~ Cliariie 'B. 'Starke, Holland. The Journal of' the proceedings of yesterday was read and Edmond\V. Corley, ·Humble. appro-ved. Albert L. Jennings, Kosse. ' \. LEAVE OF ABSENCE Hem·y B. Harrison, La Porte. By unanimous consent, leave of absence was granted to Mr. Ali de Schneider, Marion. MoRGAN, for five days, on account of important business. · Uae Sheen, Mertzon. Lucy Breen, Mineola. _ O.MNffiUS BUILDI:SG BILL ·· Mary L. Hardy, Newcastle. Mr. BUSBY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex Audry R. Redden, Ponta. -tend my remarks in the RECORD on H. R. 7182, relating to public Leland S. Howard, Roscoe. buildings. TIRGINIA The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Mississippi asks unani Cecil G. Wood, Ashland. mous consent to extend his remarks in the RECORD in the Creighton Angell, Boone Mill. manner indicated. Is there objection? Samuel T. Ranson, Bremo Bluff. There was no objection. 'Villard B. Alfred, Clarksville. Mr. BUSBY. .1\lr. Speaker, on Friday of last week, which Nancy E. Berry, Dahlgren. was January 8, I. introduced in the House H. R. 7182, which Daniel V. Richmond, Ewing. bill was in tbe nature of an omnibus building bill relating Bernard R. Powell, Franklin City. directly to post-office buildings throughout the country. Lewis B. Connelly, Lawrenceville. It includes ·altogether 418 building projects and the items Leonard G. Perh.'ins, Mineral. contained in the bill, designating places for buildings, are m~ William E. Hudson, Monroe. eluded in sections 1, 2, 3, and 4. Mary B. Wickes, New :Market. Tbe items in section 1 are listed by tbe Secretary of tb&o Fillie C. -
Performing Fascism: Opera, Politics, and Masculinities in Fascist Italy, 1935-1941
Performing Fascism: Opera, Politics, and Masculinities in Fascist Italy, 1935-1941 by Elizabeth Crisenbery Department of Music Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Bryan Gilliam, Advisor ___________________________ Benjamin Earle ___________________________ Philip Rupprecht ___________________________ Louise Meintjes ___________________________ Roseen Giles Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Music in the Graduate School of Duke University 2020 ABSTRACT Performing Fascism: Opera, Politics, and Masculinities in Fascist Italy, 1935-1941 by Elizabeth Crisenbery Department of Music Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Bryan Gilliam, Advisor ___________________________ Benjamin Earle ___________________________ Philip Rupprecht ___________________________ Louise Meintjes ___________________________ Roseen Giles An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Music in the Graduate School of Duke University 2020 Copyright by Elizabeth Crisenbery 2020 Abstract Roger Griffin notes that “there can be no term in the political lexicon which has generated more conflicting theories about its basic definition than ‘fascism’.” The difficulty articulating a singular definition of fascism is indicative of its complexities and ideological changes over time. This dissertation offers -
Anti-Fascism and Italians in Australia, 1922-1945 Index Bibliography ISBN 0 7081 1158 0 1
Although Italians had migrated to Australia since the middle of the nineteenth century, it was not until the 1920s that they became aware that they were a community in a foreign land, not just isolated individuals in search of fortune. Their political, cultural, economic and recreational associations became an important factor. Many of them, although settled in Australia, still thought of themselves as an appendage of Italy, a belief strengthened by Fascism’s nationalist propaganda which urged them to reject alien cultures, customs and traditions. The xenophobic hostility shown by some Australians greatly contributed to the success of these propaganda efforts. Moreover, the issue of Fascism in Italy was a contentious one among Italians in Australia, a large minority fighting with courage and determination against Fascism’s representatives in Australia. This broad study of Italian immigrants before and during World War II covers not only the effects of Fascism, but also records the ordeal of Italian settlers in the cities and the outback during the Depression and the difficulties they faced after the outbreak of the war. It deals with a subject that has long been neglected by scholars and is an important contribution to the history of Italian migrants in Australia. Although Italians had migrated to Australia since the middle of the nineteenth century, it was not until the 1920s that they became aware that they were a community in a foreign land, not just isolated individuals in search of fortune. Their political, cultural, economic and recreational associations became an important factor. Many of them, although settled in Australia, still thought of themselves as an appendage of Italy, a belief strengthened by Fascism’s nationalist propaganda which urged them to reject alien cultures, customs and traditions. -
Open Gillen Leah Anti-Semitisminitaly.Pdf
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHREYER HONORS COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES ANTI-SEMITISM IN ITALY, 1922-1945 LEAH GILLEN SUMMER 2013 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for baccalaureate degrees in History, Italian, and Global and International Studies with honors in History Reviewed and approved* by the following: Tobias Brinkmann Malvin and Lea Bank Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History Thesis Supervisor Mike Milligan Senior Lecturer in History Honors Adviser * Signatures are on file in the Schreyer Honors College. i ABSTRACT This thesis is a study of the emergence and development of anti-Semitism in Italy, from its roots in pre-Unification, Catholic prejudice to the political, Fascist form of anti-Jewish discrimination of the 1930’s and early 1940’s. Italian Jews, from their 1848 emancipation to the establishment of the race laws in 1938, achieved a degree of assimilation into the surrounding Italian society unparalleled in other European countries. The high level of Jewish influence and involvement in the Unification effort coupled with the continued, successful integration of the Italian Jews into society well into the 20th century lead to the creation of the concept of the italianita`, or Italian-ness, of the Jewish community in Italy. As the Fascist party began to cultivate a modern, political form of anti-Semitism in Italy, culminating in the establishment of the discriminatory race laws in the late 1930’s, Italian Jews failed to successfully respond to the growing dangers facing the Jewish community. Jews in Italy believed themselves inseparable from their non-Jewish Italian counterparts, and thus safe from the genocide in other parts of Europe.