TIDE MICHIGAN DAILY
Visiting Speaker Discusses
Cavour's Liberalism in Italy
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- By RALPH KAPLAN
"He had a special kind of liberal-
ism which never stopped him from
violating professed scruples," Prof.
Denis Mack Smith said of Count
Cavour yesterday.
Prof. Smith, fellow of Peterhouse
and history lecturer at Cambridge
University, gave "a deliberately
one-sided account" of the 19th
century leader who was instru-
mental in uniting Italy.
One of the common assumptions
about Cavour is that he acted with
the goal of Italian unity in mind,
Prof. Smith said. But "far from
planning it out, he had little or
no idea of where he was going."
Realism Makes Success
Realism and an excellent sense
of timing were responsible for his
success, Prof. Smith continued.
Cavour planned a large war, sup-
posedly to unify Italy, but in his
private correspondence spoke of
"the aggrandizement of Pied-
mont."
Another help to him was the
"un-Italian" part of his outlook,
he said. Cavour's Swiss and French
influences made him more Euro-
pean than Italian and he "imbibed
his political doctrines from the
July monarchy."
His French influence was espe-
cially strong and Prof., Smith
thinks he "studied France more
than Italy." He felt most at home
in northern Italy which "was in
spirit more a part of Europe," Prof.
Smith added. .
Writes First Paper
The paper Il Risorgimento was
Cavour's first medium for reform
ideas. Through the paper he ad-
vocated war with Austria in 1848
when the Milanese revolted against
the Austrians.
In Nov., 1852, he became Prime
Minister. In the subsequent years
Cavour created a "rubber-stamp"
parliament which hurt his en-
emies, Prof. Smith said.
These included the extreme
right, the left, the Catholic church,
and the king. Creation of this
Parliament is regarded as one of
his greatest acts as a politician.
In 1854 Cavour decided to in-
volve Piedmont in the Crimean
War. Although this has gone down
as one of his greatest moves, Prof.
Smith called it discreditable and
said it "had little aim in mind."
By DAVID SATTINGER
Prove that the, least - upper-
bound postulate follows directly
from the Dedekind-cut axiom.
Or, show that the square root of
two is irrational:
These problems are typical of
those being assigned by Prof. E. E.
Moise of the mathematics depart-
ment to the. 52 students in his
freshman honors math sequence,
'17h and 18h.
Although analytic geometry and
calculus constitute the primary
material covered, the relatively
high pace of work allows time for
investigation of topics not nor-
mally presented in beginning math
courses, Prof. Moise explained.
Thus the foundations of the real
number system' and a rather de-
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The king tried to get rid of
Cavour by getting France to sign
a treaty which would involve Pied-
mqnt in the war. Cavour an-
nounced in Parliament that his
government= was trying to fight
the Crimean War.
In 1856, he decided to have a
European War which would op-
pose Austria and Piedmont, Prof.
Smith said.
His bravado' deluded' him into
thinking,however, that he could
fight Austria and England at the
same time. He persuaded France
to help him and war broke out in
1859.
At this time Cavour had occa-
sionally become the victim of al-
most delirious fits.
Causes Failure
In 1860 Cavour was responsible
for makirg the Villafranca Armis-
tice "a minor failure," he stressed.
Later that year he opposed Gari-
baldi's army and annexed part of,
the papal states.
During this, time Cavour was
idealized by Italian historians to
help him stabilize the regime and
make nationalism attractive to the
people. "He faced a difficult situa-
tion and made the best of it,"
Prof. Smith believes, "and had he
been a visionary idealist, Italy may
never have been unified."
FRESHMAN MATH-Prof. E. E. Moise of the mathematics. de-
partment instructs the freshman honors math sequence. Textbooks
are not used in the course, which covers analytic geometry,
calculus, real numbers and the theory of limits.
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