stream Those who take pleasure in surveying the past speak of a crisis. The Ethiopian war was hardly finished when from the other shore of the Mediterranean there reached us appeals from General Franco, who had begun his national revolution. They call his name and give fascist salutes. She concentrated in Egypt fifteen divisions and a considerable mass of armored means and hurled them against our lines in Marmarica where on the first line were Libyan divisions, brave and faithful but unsuited to bear the attack of enemy machines. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. marines, and airman, accoutred as for war, torch, lined the steps of the massive Victor, decree was published formally proclaiming, Italian sovereignty over Abyssinia, vesting, or Viceroy. I say this because most people nowadays understand the term in the context of Social Liberalism. On this day in 1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave a speech in Milan celebrating a new treaty of friendship with Germany and a political realignment of Italy. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667904/. endstream Essays and articles posted on ARPLAN, except those written by myself personally, are not representative of my own personal opinions. 20 0 obj This calls upon our energy and will-power. [/ICCBased 21 0 R] RM 2M3JY1M - Photograph showing Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945), the Italian dictator, testing a radio set during the Italian Army manoevres of August 1936. The lie is that the Axis powers, after they finish Great Britain, want to attack America. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. << /Length 8 0 R /Type /XObject /Subtype /Form /FormType 1 /BBox [0 0 612 792] Since you've made it this far, we want to assume you're a real, live human. Similar to my own arguments about the Mormon Church of Utah being an American model for non-Soviet Command Economy, I can also cite the Puritans of New England as an American model for Corporatism. Between the decision and the start of action there was a delay of only two days. o95E SiiAJs{tp|2[:N[[K ["EBJ-89THPKZRZmhQ|HR. They are both messengers of Caesarism, which sounds somewhere in the distance in the nebulous music of the future., Here, in architecture, the peculiarity of our time is strikingly evident: hitherto the artistic structures had been the tombs of kings or the places in which they held their courts or the community hall, or they served sacred purposes today the artistic building serves as a business office or it has no meaning at all, The Fundamentals of National Socialist Economic Policy, The Salzburg Conference and the National Socialist Party of the German Volk, The Second Danger: A Warning from the Fatherland Front, Extending a Hand to West Germanys Little Nazis. Derso and Kelen were Hungarians who worked for the League of Nations in Geneva, where they were Sir Eric Drummond (1876--1951) was the first secretary-general of the League of Nations. Could we refuse to give our aid to the movement of salvation that had found in Antonio Primo de Rivera its creator, ascetic and martyr? Page 9 - MUSSOLINI PROCLAIMS ITALY AN EMPIRE. Note - Opera omnia is the most comprehensive collection of Mussolini's writings, speeches, and publications. 25 0 obj 3. Mon 11 May 1936 - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. The difference is in the scale and scope of responsibilities. 4 0 obj What does higher social justice mean? It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline. Speech by the His Majesty Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, at the Assembly of the League of Nations, at the Session of June--July 1936. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -06-30, 1936] Pdf. : 1848 - 1957), http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11033710, create private tags and comments, readable only by you, and. : 1848 - 1957), Signor Mussolini announced last night that Ethiopia, had been placed under the full and entire sovereignty of, Italy. :wX_ss\fh^_0B7Fb78>(0p,% \hMr8}6azr`#;m?6h85;_ G #KT*{/G Our capacity to recuperate in moral and material fields is really formidable and constitutes one of the peculiar characteristics of our race. The Church prefers a balanced approach to economic life, which is similar to its own stances on political life. Locarno Treaties: Treaty between Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy. ZKOoIV.A;p%2ferk?|MWBh 6OT` [ZZh**sz^ZfB~WgzSq+wl9>' D5nUZDuI7%7R*_I(xjG#~4Lf uLF1$iRn$7a>j\QhQS|igJW? whole: Duration 16, Number Of Items 1. Oswald Spengler, Preuentum und Sozialismus (1919), The revolutionary use of force by the masses is an expression of immediate life, often wild and barbaric, but never systematically horrible and inhuman. Carl Schmitt, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus (1923), Russian Bolshevism and Italian fascism are kindred phenomena, they are signs of an epoch. After all, both Corporatism and Catholic Social Teaching do in fact advocate for an economic system that is neither Socialist nor Capitalist but as an entirely different category altogether. We can tell from Mussolinis invocations of Social Justice that the particular term was being specifically understood within its original religious connotations. The Fifth Air Squadron was literally sacrificed, almost entirely. Miracles! fascist assumption of power, Benito Mussolini inaugurated the most enduring propaganda event of the fascist dictatorship. Speeches, - It was during October and November that Great Britain gathered and lined up against us the mass of her imperial forces, recruited from three continents and armed by a fourth. Could the attitude have been one of indifference? << Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before labour and before the nation. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to get the full Trove experience. Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknownItalian title reads: \"Roma\". Nevertheless we who feel strong and are strong, may offer, once more, the possibility of an understanding of which the precise terms already exist. In order that the morale of the troops of labour be as high as is necessary, we have advocated the postulate of higher social justice for all the Italian people, because a people who fail to find at home the conditions of life worthy of the Fascist age and of European standards, are a people who, at the hour of need, will be unable to give their utmost. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. /N 3 Title devised, in English, by Library staff. He did give a speech to the League of Nations in June 1936 in which he admonished the West saying, "It is us today. This is why I shall make a brief survey of the horizon, which I shall restrict to neighbouring countries towards which our attitude cannot be one of indifference, but must either be hostile or friendly. hs2z\nLA"Sdr%,lt He also looks at paintings.Mussolini comes out onto balcony with crowd gathered below. It is because we are certain regarding the grade of national maturity reached by the Italian people and regarding the future development of events that we continue to follow the cult of truth and repudiate all falsification. Americans who will read what I say should be calm and not believe in the existence of a big bad wolf who wants to devour them. endobj War beyond the sea and in the desert. Fourth, with this situation things are diametrically opposed to conditions from 1914 to 1918. When the war is over, in the worlds social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earths riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. First, in war potentiality Germany not only did not decrease after seventeen months of war, but increased in gigantic proportions. endstream The Locarno Conference of October 1925, named for the small city in southern Switzerland where it was held, is remembered for the agreement known as the Locarno Pact. Researchers are encouraged to review the source information attached to each item. 34575. The welcome extended to me in Milan did not surprise me, but moved me instead. If we had been 100 per cent ready we would have entered the war in September, 1939, and not in June, 1940. Advertisement Text of Mussolini's Milan Speech By the Associated Press. We call bread bread and wine wine, and when the enemy wins a battle it is useless and ridiculous to seek, as the English do in their incomparable hypocrisy, to deny or diminish it. endobj Second, German armaments are in quality and quantity infinitely superior to those available at the start of the war. From the standpoint of human losses, they have been at a minimum if compared with the masses in action. Indeed, as we have often said before, we are absolutely convinced that Fascism is bound to become the standard type of civilisation of our century for Europe and for Italy. If anyone ever provides me with a good English translation of any of his writing, from a proper source, Id definitely consider uploading it. https://www.nytimes.com/1936/11/02/archives/text-of-mussolinis-milan-speech.html. In so far as the past century was the century of capitalistic power, the Twentieth century is the century of the power and glory of labour. They must add at least one zero to the figures of their communiqus. There is a peculiar tidbit of information that you had brought up regarding Ezra Pounds response to that 1934 speech. Four hundred thousand people who had assembled, before the Palazza Venezia cheered wildly when the, Duce made the announcement. He spoke in Amharic, the text of which is on the left side of the pages. Committee of Three - League of Nations. It was an act of conscious daring. How could one be hostile to a movement which enfolds the better part of the Italian people and exalts their inextinguishable passion for greatness? Then the blockade was a terrible weapon in the hands of Great Britain. The Germans know that Italy today has on her shoulders the weight of 1,000,000 British and Greek soldiers, of from 1,500 to 2,000 planes, of as many tanks, of thousands of cannon, of at least 500,000 tons of military shipping. In December 1934, a clash, provoked by the Italians, occurred between Italian and Ethiopian armed forces at Walwal on the Ethiopian side of the frontier with Italian Somaliland. There remains Russia, but her fundamental interests advise her also to follow in the future a good-neighbor policy with Germany. Secretariat. As a member of the League of Nations, Ethiopia brought the case before the Council, but Mussolini ignored all League proposals to resolve the crisis. October 6, 1934. But politically, the State must be able to cooperate with the Church, tolerating its presence and activities in the Socialist Nation. The Danubian and Balkan world cannot ignore and does not ignore the Axis, Hungary and Rumania have joined the Tripartite Pact. But if this should not come to pass, take it for granted that we, tempered as we are by the Fascist climate, will adorn the point of our bayonets with the oak and laurel of victory! Mussolini's conquest of Abyssinia From a correspondent Fri 10 Jul 1936 06.48 EDT I recently had the opportunity of talking with a well-educated officer of the Italian army. This political cartoon was created in 1932 by Alois Derso (1888--1964) and Emery Kelen (1896--1978). E6S2)212 "l+&Y4P%\%g|eTI (L 0_&l2E 9r9h xgIbifSb1+MxL0oE%YmhYh~S=zU&AYl/ $ZU m@O l^'lsk.+7o9V;?#I3eEKDd9i,UQ h6'~khu_ }9PIo= C#$n?z}[1 At the present moment you are the protagonists of an event which the political history of tomorrow will remember as the speech to the workers of Milan.. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -06-30] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667904/. 8 0 obj i!+I1-~GxJxC]_7&x'62L$EREu9-Ut=0BpFHzED{!Yw93> Do not be astonished by this statement. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Basically, any ideology which does not conform to the established dogmas of Liberal Capitalism. We only wish to see preserved and stressed the Italian character of the Canton Ticino, and this not only in our interest, but chiefly in the interest, and for the future of the Swiss republic. stream It is the geographic and historic order of things that the most difficult and most faraway theatres of war are reserved for Italy.