When I see that while Hitler and Mussolini persecuted men because of their race, and invented the appalling anti-Jewish legislation that we know, and… - Alcide De Gasperi

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When I see that while Hitler and Mussolini persecuted men because of their race, and invented the appalling anti-Jewish legislation that we know, and I see at the same time the Russians made up of 160 races seeking the fusion of these races by overcoming the differences existing between Asia and Europe, this attempt, this effort towards the unification of human consortium, let me say: this is Christian, this is eminently universalistic in the sense of Catholicism.

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About Alcide De Gasperi

Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi (3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian politician and statesman who founded the Christian Democracy party and served as prime minister of Italy in eight successive coalition governments from 1945 to 1953. De Gasperi was the last prime minister of the Kingdom of Italy, serving under both Victor Emmanuel III and Umberto II. He was also the first prime minister of the Italian Republic, and also briefly served as provisional head of state after the Italian people voted to end the monarchy and establish a republic. His eight-year term in office remains a landmark of political longevity for a leader in modern Italian politics. De Gasperi is the fifth longest-serving prime minister since the Italian Unification. A devout Catholic, he was one of the founding fathers of the European Union along with fellow Italian Alteiro Spinelli. De Gasperi has been proclaimed Servant of God.

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Alternative Names: Alcide Amedeo Francesco De Gasperi
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I take the floor in this world assembly and I feel that everything, except your personal courtesy, is against me: it is above all my qualification as a former enemy, which makes me feel like an accused person, that I have arrived here after the most influential among you have already formulated their conclusions in a long and laborious elaboration.[... ] I have the duty before the conscience of my country and to defend the vitality of my people to speak as an Italian, but I feel the responsibility and the right to speak also as an anti-fascist democrat, as a representative of the new Republic that, harmonising in itself the humanitarian aspirations of Giuseppe Mazzini ([an Italian 33rd degree Scottish Rite Freemason]), the universalist conceptions of Christianity and the internationalist hopes of the workers, is all directed towards that lasting and reconstructive peace that you seek and towards that cooperation between peoples that you have the task of establishing.

Il comunismo quale si viene attuando in URSS è agli antipodi del nazismo: il comunismo è impregnato di fratellanza cristiana ed è perciò antirazzista per eccellenza, mentre il nazismo e il fascismo sono essenzialmente e in primo luogo razzisti. Quindi due fenomeni inconciliabili e opposti il comunismo e il nazismo.

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Prendo la parola in questo consesso mondiale e sento che tutto, tranne la vostra personale cortesia, è contro di me: è soprattutto la mia qualifica di ex nemico, che mi fa ritenere un imputato, l'essere arrivato qui dopo che i più influenti di voi hanno già formulato le loro conclusioni in una lunga e faticosa elaborazione.[...] Ho il dovere innanzi alla coscienza del mio paese e per difendere la vitalità del mio popolo di parlare come italiano, ma sento la responsabilità e il diritto di parlare anche come democratico antifascista, come rappresentante della nuova Repubblica che, armonizzando in sé le sue aspirazioni umanitarie di Giuseppe Mazzini, le concezioni universalistiche del cristianesimo e le speranze internazionalistiche dei lavoratori, è tutta rivolta verso quella pace duratura e ricostruttiva che voi cercate e verso quella cooperazione fra i popoli che avete il compito di stabilire.

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