Italy’s present move through “the opening to the Left,” and the formation of a new government based on a coalition with Pietro Nenni’s fellow travelers give immediate relevance to these excerpts from the opening statement to the Mont-Pélérin Society, the distinguished association of libertarian scholars, at its meeting in Turin last fall, by Dr. Wilhelm Roepke, then its president.
In opening this meeting of the Mont-Pélérin Society I consider ittobemy first duty to pay homage to the country on whose soil our annual conference takes place this year. I fear to sound trivial in mentioning the immense debt we owe to an Italy now in deadly peril, a peril more threatening than perhaps at any moment of its long history of about three thousand years.
Comments