The Trial of Mussolini: Being a Verbatim Report of the First Great Trial for War Criminals Held in London Sometime in 1944 or 1945
Book about an imaginary trial. From a review by George Orwell: "For the purposes of his allegory ‘Cassius’ [pseudonym of Michael Foot] imagines...
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Book about an imaginary trial. From a review by George Orwell:
"For the purposes of his allegory ‘Cassius’ [pseudonym of Michael Foot] imagines Mussolini indicted before a British court, with the Attorney General as prosecutor. The list of charges is an impressive one, and the main facts — from the murder of Matteotti to the invasion of Greece, and from the destruction of the peasants’ co-operatives to the bombing of Addis Ababa — are not denied. Concentration camps, broken treaties, rubber truncheons, castor oil — everything is admitted. The only troublesome question is: How can something that was praiseworthy at the time when you did it — ten years ago, say — suddenly become reprehensible now? Mussolini is allowed to call witnesses, both living and dead, and to show by their own printed words that from the very first the responsible leaders of British opinion have encouraged him in everything that he did."
- Format:Hardcover
- Pages:82 pages
- Publication:1943
- Publisher:Victor Gollancz
- Edition:5th Edition, Reprint
- Language:eng
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