Ugo Cavallero quotes
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“The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.”
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“We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality.”
-- Ugo CavalleroSource : "All Or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust, 1941-1943". Book by Jonathan Steinberg, p. 67, 2002.
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“I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.”
-- Ugo CavalleroSource : "Improbable Heroes". Book by Carl L. Steinhous, p. 104, 2005.
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“I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.”
-- Ugo CavalleroSource : "Der Afrikafeldzug: Rommels Wüstenkrieg 1941-1943". Book by Franz Kurowski, p. 112, 1986.
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“The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division.”
-- Ugo CavalleroSource : "Diplomacy of Aggression" by Leonid Nikolaevich Kutakov (p. 110), 1970.
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
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“Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.”
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Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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Source : "The New Physics". Book edited by Paul Davies, 1992.
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Source : "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" Vol. 9, No. 2, published by by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., (p. 38), March 1953.
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