Failures
- The 80,000 ha reclaimed was only one-twentieth of the propaganda claim which was one-sixth of Italy’s land
- Three quarters of land was in the North; the South was neglected which needed improving the most
- Ambitious plans were blocked by southern landowners
- The Fascist regime achieved nothing in the way of land redistribution, which was, in any event, inconsistent with the central thrust of the more high profile Battle for Grain
- The scheme was abandoned in 1940.
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Famous quotes containing the word failures:
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
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—Eda Le Shan (20th century)