Francesco Coppola Quotes
Two formidable historic powers --the temporal dominion of the Popes and the Austro-Hungarian Empire--have stood in her path and attempted to bar her way. Italy has overthrown them one after the other. If any other power should insist upon barring her way today, Italy will sooner or later know how to force it aside also.
He wrote this in English, in an American prestigious journal to reach an elite American audience.
Francesco Coppola, 1878-1957, Italian Nationalist & Fascist Politician & Journalist, Cofounder, Italian Nationalist Association, “Italy in the Mediterranean”, Foreign Affairs, March 1923
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He had been urged to retreat
In the negotiations the Indian nationalists of the Congress Party did not get everything that they wanted. Rarely does anyone in legitimate negotiations. This was a masterful example of oratory where Nehru wanted to produce the euphoria and historical gravitas that was appropriate when the largest group of people in world history gained self-government and independence. Yet the Congress Party had made promises in the platforms over the years that had not been kept. The partition of the one nation into a Muslim state as well as India denied the Indians of some of their historically and economically most important territories and he had to acknowledge that failure without dampening the public enthusiasm for the great achievement. This was a masterpiece.
Once the Muslims got their separate country, the Buddhists tried to do the same. The disaster of the Pakistan partition was not about to be be repeated so it never happened.
He was addressing the Conservatives of Ulster, the Northern Ireland province that was the center of the Orangemen movement of Irish Protestants who were fighting to retain 'Protestant Ascendency' -- which was the social, political and cultural domination of the Protestants (the minority) over the Catholics (the majority). This was best achieved by keeping Ireland a part of Great Britain as opposed to having Ireland as a separate, independent country.
For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
A group of citizens of Mecklenburgh County, NC gathered together and produced their own “Declaration of Independence” a little over a year before The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. Some people refer to the earlier document as the Mecklenburgh Declaration of Independence. It is not known how much Alexander personally wrote however he signed as the Chairman of the convention. The delegates voted to send a copy to the Continental Congress, and the reader will recognize some of the similar language which found its way into the 1776 document. The Mecklenburgh Resolution also contained a structure of government.
The highest court in New York. This was the generally accepted view of international law until WWII when atrocities and crimes against humanity were coped with. Also, at the time of this writing America was a small emerging state and not one of the great powers. Hence the prohibition of even commenting on the internal affairs of another nation was important to us. Now that America is a superpower, and society is more concerned with human rights, the point of view has changed.
Francesco Coppola was prominent Italian journalist and politician in the twentieth century who associated with Italian nationalism and later Italian Fascism.
