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Updated: June 6, 2025
Even the Giolittian Deputies, when brought to the urn for a secret vote on the Salandra measures a week after the lively expression of popular will in the piazza, voted secretly against their neutral leader, in favor of war! They had been converted by the voice of the piazza by other things also in all likelihood.
The character of Milton's Satan, with the various facets of pride, envy, vindictiveness, despair, and impenitence which go to form that harmonious whole, are already clearly mapped out in the Lucifero of Salandra. For this statement, which I find correct, Zicari gives chapter and verse, but it would take far too long to set forth the matter in this place.
All the members of the House, and everybody in the galleries, stood up to acclaim the old follower of Garibaldi. Premier Salandra, followed by all the members of the Cabinet, entered shortly afterward. It was a solemn moment. Then a delirium of cries broke out. "Viva Salandra!" roared the Deputies, and the cheering lasted for a long time.
After the formalities of the opening, Premier Salandra, deeply moved by the demonstration, arose and said: "Gentlemen, I have the honor to present to you a bill to meet the eventual expenditures of a national war." The announcement was greeted by further prolonged applause.
And, strange to say, even the few faults which earlier scholars did venture to point out in Milton's poem will be found in that of Salandra.
They stoned a few signs, notably the one over the empty office of the Austrian-Lloyd company, then, being turned from the Corso and the Austrian Embassy by the police, they rushed back up the hill to the Salandra residence, to hang about and yell themselves hoarse in the hope of evoking something from the former Premier.
It is alleged by certain personal friends of Baron Sonnino, who had exceptionally good opportunities for knowing what took place and I have grounds for acquiescing in their view that this statesman was for declaring war against Germany as well as Austria, but that Professor Salandra negatived this logical and straightforward move.
At last they had seen: they saw that the Salandra Government in which they had confidence had come to the parting of the ways with Austria, and they saw the hand of Giolitti trying to play the game of their ancient enemy.
The strain was always latent, but it became acute of late years, especially when Austria thwarted Italy's move on Turkey as Salandra revealed later under the sting of Bethmann-Hollweg's taunts. It was badly strained, virtually broken, when Austria without warning to Italy stabbed at Serbia.
And, to condemn him, it is not necessary to believe him to have been a knave bought by German gold. It is important to realize what happened overnight. Giolitti had become the most hated, most denounced man in all Italy, and in so far as he represented honest neutralista sentiment the cause was dead. If that was what the Salandra Government wanted to achieve, they had got their desire.
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