New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
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Meeting tomorrow to consider a request for Use of central junior high school auditorium for . lecture on fascism. tho finance committee of the school board will study into the nature of the lecture and determine whether. in its opinion, it is q prope subject for discussion in a public school.
 Prof. GaetAno Salvemini, an op- ponent of fascism since its inception, has been engaged as the speaker. Application for use of the audi torium waS made by Frederick Ghlo of 60 Commonwealth avenue, who is In charge of local arrangements
 The lecturer held the chair of history at Florence university. and was . member of the Italian parlia- nnent for several sessions. His op- position to the fascisti regime prompted his withdrawal from Italy in 1926, and he has been featuring in England and the United States for nearly three years.
 It has been the custom of the school committee to refer questions aA to the use of auditoriums to its subcommittee on finance, whose members are Louis w. Young. Jo- seph NJ. Halloran and William H. Day. This is the first instance If en application for use of school building for the purpose of ex- pounding the principles of fascism and the objections thereto.
 A letter urging favorable action on the request has been forwarded to Chairman Young of the finance committee by J. B. Alice of 101 Har- rison street, who wrote:
 "Mr. Louis W. Young,
 "The Stanley Works. City.
 "Dear Sir:
 At my suggestion. Mir. Frederick Ghio has applied at the office of the board for the use of the auditorium at tho Central Junior High school about two weeks hence for the pur- pose Of having given a free public lecture by Prof. c. Salvemini on the nature and meaning of the fascist theory of government and it's signifi- canoe in republican institutions in America.
 MT. Ghio was informed that by reason of the subject of the lecture, the matter must be passed upon by your committee on finance at it's m meeting next Tuesday.
 Prof. Salvemini was formerly pro- lessor of history at the University of Florence. and more recently. l un- Gerstand, a lecturer at the University of Oxford, England. His work The Fascist Dictatorship in Italy was called to my attention a couple of years ago by favorable review in the New York Herald Tribune. You will please examine q copy of this book herewith.
 The establishment of dictator ships in many countries in Europe and the advocacy of the fascist theories by some prominent Ameri- cans, renders this question, in my estimation, g. matter of vital concern to every thoughtful American citi- yen.
 Recently Mr. Richard Washburn Child, former American ambassador to Italy. has published book: The Writing on the Wall described in . book review section of New York newspaper, as .an argument that democracy is played out.' In an ar- ticle by Mir. Child last year in a weekly publication going into mill lions of our homes appeared the question: What is democracy any how?'
 Gan anyone question the right of citizens to have this matter aired, discussed in a New England school house:
 MT. Ghio. like the writer, is an American citizen.
 Tt would seem that your commit tee should approach with great cau- ton any suggestion to lay the ban of censorship upon the proposed lec-