Altiero Spinelli

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Altiero Spinelli

Italian resistance leader

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…Resistance, led by, among others, Altiero Spinelli. One of the most stubborn of Mussolini’s political prisoners, he was freed in 1943 from confinement on an island off the coast between Rome and Naples. Admiring what he called “the clean, precise thinking of the English federalists,” he echoed it in the…
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…Resistance, led by, among others, Altiero Spinelli. One of the most stubborn of Mussolini’s political prisoners, he was freed in 1943 from confinement on an island off the coast between Rome and Naples. Admiring what he called “the clean, precise thinking of the English federalists,” he echoed it in the…
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