Understanding Italy
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UNDERSTANDING ITALY PREFACE It would seem to be a queer mood that would impel any one to write another book about a country of which the last word appears to have been uttered long ago. But is the last word ever spoken about a grow ing and changing nation as Italy is to-day Further more, though much may be known about Italys art, her music, and her charming climate, an understanding of the Italian people and a clear knowledge of the economic and industrial renaissance which has been sweeping through the country of late are not so common. There is not only a lack of understanding of Euro pean countries to-day on the part of Americans, but there is also a tendency to act the Pontius Pilate and to relieve ourselves of responsibility for the Old World, now fallen under such sullen and averted stars, 1 by saying, We do not understand those coun tries therefore we had best keep free from European affairs. However, it is gradually being borne home to cer tain sections of our people, particularly to those en gaged in financial and commercial dealings with vi PREFACE Europe, that, whatever we may say or think about it, our national prosperity and destiny are closely inter woven with the life and destiny of transatlantic peo ple. As ex-President Taft once said, Unless every body prospers, nobody prospers. We cannot have a permanent period of good times while Europe is languishing in bad times. Our future national welfare, as well as our moral duty, impels us in this morning of Americas material prestige to understand Europe, and to render to these people who have sent to us the richest bloods of earth, and who now must have our aid if civilization is to survive, a discerning as well as a material appreciation. A far-sighted statesman of Europe, President Masaryk of the new state of Czecho-Slovakia, is re ported to have said that the first duty of Americans was to understand Europe, that material help to Euro pean nations would be of little value unless it had wise direction,
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