Between Two Worlds: The Political Thought of Graham Wallas

Schweitzer, Frederick M.; Wiener, Martin

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“…1 Thanks to Russell's support, between January and March 1926, Salvemini began an intense lecturing activity, which would see him deliver around 65 public speeches by the end of the year (Salvemini 1985, 543). Russell was hosting him at her house in St Leonard's Terrace, Chelsea: her unpublished correspondence to her sister proves the liveliness of this milieu, attended by Fabian intellectuals and members of the London School of Economics, including the political scientists Graham Wallas, Harold Laski, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (Clarke 1978;Wiener 1971), and the Classics scholar Gilbert Murray, a close friend of Russell's from the time of her marriage to the philosopher Bertrand Russell (Bruneau 2007), whom she divorced in 1921. It is crucial to mention these particular names since they were directly involved in the organisation of three lectures on Fascist Italy which took place in the first months of 1926: the first, held on 19 January at the National Liberal Club (London); the second, on 17 February, at the Oxford Branch of the League of Nations Union; and the third on 23 March, again in London, at Essex Hall.…”

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Salvemini's antifascist exile in London: attracting the attention of a British audience

Gussoni

2023

Mod. Italy

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In 1925 the Fascist dictatorship forced Gaetano Salvemini to leave Italy and begin a new life in exile. Salvemini understood he could find political and financial support in London to achieve two main aims: to live a decent life as an antifascist exile and fight the Fascist dictatorship from abroad. Thanks to a network encompassing intellectuals, academics, journalists, and politicians, London provided Salvemini with a platform for sharing antifascist stances outside Italy. This essay will develop research on this topic by taking into account Salvemini's conference speeches, articles, books, and essays written while in Britain, from 1925 to 1934. The corpus of the selected texts will show that Salvemini carefully singled out topics that were able to attract the attention of a foreign audience, particularly British public opinion. Therefore, the analysis of Salvemini's intellectual production during this period and the reaction of the press will contribute to cast a new light on his antifascist strategies; in other words, it will lead to a consideration of the extent to which being part of a British intellectual network transformed his approach to the antifascist struggle.

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Salvemini's antifascist exile in London: attracting the attention of a British audience

Gussoni

2023

Mod. Italy

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Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919

Kaiga

2021

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In this innovative account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World War, revealing its unexpected consequences for the development of the first international organisation for peace. Combining international, social, intellectual history and international relations, she challenges two misunderstandings about the role of the movement: that their ideas about a league were utopian and that its peaceful ideal appealed to the war-weary public. Kaiga demonstrates how the original post-war plan consisted of both realistic and idealistic views of international relations, and shows how it evolved and changed in tandem with the war. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the unknown origins of the League of Nations and highlights the transformation of international society and of ideas about war prevention in the twentieth century to the present.

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‘a sort of Bogeywhom no-one has ever seen’? The nature of the search

Sutherland

2015

In Search of the New Woman

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Between Two Worlds: The Political Thought of Graham Wallas

Cited by 9 publications

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Salvemini's antifascist exile in London: attracting the attention of a British audience

Salvemini's antifascist exile in London: attracting the attention of a British audience

Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919

‘a sort of Bogeywhom no-one has ever seen’? The nature of the search

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