“We Want a Mussolini”: Views of Fascist Italy in Australia

Cooper, Roslyn Pesman

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“…His flight has been a matter-of-fact, service affair, to all appearance entirely confident from the outset – a good, clean, modest performance, without display, and, save for the slightest of incidents, without mishap. (‘The Italian Flight’ 1925, 8)The acknowledgment of these qualities in the aviators runs against the vein of prejudice which construes Italians as ‘emotional, disorderly, melodramatic, volatile, child-like’ (Pesman Cooper 1993b, 351), and the Italo-Australian newspaper is quick to promote the ‘modesty’, which ‘has enhanced [Australians’] love of [De Pinedo]’ insisting that through his example ‘Old prejudices are forgotten. New ties are forged’ (‘A Great National Hero’ 1925, 1).…”

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Race, technological modernity, and the Italo-Australian condition: Francesco De Pinedo's 1925 flight from Europe to Australia

Lee

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2020

Mod. Italy

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Writing about fascism and aviation has stressed the role technology played in Mussolini's ambitions to cultivate fascist ideals in Italy and amongst the Italian diaspora. In this article we examine Francesco De Pinedo's account of the Australian section of his record-breaking 1925 flight from Rome to Tokyo. Our analysis of De Pinedo's reception as a modern Italian in a British Australia, and his response to that reception, suggests that this Italian aviator was relatively unconcerned with promoting Fascist greatness in Australia. De Pinedo was interested in Australian claims to the forms of modernity he had witnessed in the United States and which the Fascists were attempting to incorporate into a new vision of Italian destiny. Flight provided him with a geographical imagination which understood modernity as an international exchange of progressive peoples. His Australian reception revealed a nation anxious about preserving its British identity in a globalising world conducive to a more cosmopolitan model of modernity.

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Race, technological modernity, and the Italo-Australian condition: Francesco De Pinedo's 1925 flight from Europe to Australia

Lee

Kennedy

2020

Mod. Italy

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Modern Italian history in Australia

Pesman

1999

Journal of Modern Italian Studies

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Mobilising the Masses: Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression

Cunningham¹

2022

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I would also like to acknowledge all of the staff and associates of ANU Press who shepherded me through my first (but hopefully not my only) book. Frank Bongiorno, Richard Reid, Emily Tinker, the external peer reviewers, Jan Borrie (copyeditor extraordinaire), and everyone else-thank you for the time and resources you devoted to bringing this book to fruition. The end product is all the better for it.And finally, thank you to Sooty (our cat) for constantly reminding me that, if I can't eat it, play with it or sleep on it, it's probably not that important.

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“We Want a Mussolini”: Views of Fascist Italy in Australia

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Race, technological modernity, and the Italo-Australian condition: Francesco De Pinedo's 1925 flight from Europe to Australia

Race, technological modernity, and the Italo-Australian condition: Francesco De Pinedo's 1925 flight from Europe to Australia

Modern Italian history in Australia

Mobilising the Masses: Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression

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