The impression of someone returning to the United States after several years of absence (in my case, seven) is similar to that of a man who, at twenty, had a beautiful thirty-five-year-old lover and meets her again a decade later, already overcome by time. The "depression" has shaken the American people even more than its economic foundations: the American spirit has not resisted the wave, which, above all for this reason, has caused irreparable, in my opinion definitive, effects.

The so-called ruling class is gripped by a desperate nostalgia for a past for which it has no respite except its responsibilities, and for a future for which it cannot discern any certainty. Meanwhile, the present looms with its inescapable drama, and the ruling class struggles with it, stammering incoherently and with uncertain and incoherent actions, clinging to disastrous palliatives or attempting to free itself with paradoxical or bizarre evasions, a method familiar to the people of America, harmless in times of prosperity but pernicious in times of crisis. The people are unable to grasp a paradoxical situation, bearing all the consequences ... omitted ... As things stand now, there is nothing to be done but clear everything out. There's no point in creating new newspapers. There's no point in trying to straighten out the existing ones. Clean up. And then a newspaper, just one, directed by someone sent from Italy, with a service almost exclusively from Italy, possibly run with capital coming from Italy... Luigi Freddi

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Second report of the trip to Germany written in 1937, composed of 43 typewritten pages, with corrections and handwritten notes ( My report to Mussolini on my trip to Germany - LF ) and signed in the last hand LUIGI FREDDI

" My visit to Germany, as Your Excellency knows, was organized by the President of the Reichsfilmkammer and was in the nature of a return visit to Italy by Minister Lehnich last year. The program of the visit and the topics to be discussed had been previously defined by HE/Goebbels and approved by the Führer.

I arrived in Munich at midday on the 8th of this month on an Avioline aircraft (in this regard, it would be appropriate to change the route maps distributed to passengers with ones in which the borders of the old Austria are erased).

At Munich airport, I was received by Minister Lehnich, Dr. Melzer, Vice President of the Reichsfilmkemmer, the representative of the Bavarian Gauleiter, and the delegate of the organizing committee of the "Tag der Deutschen Kunst." Minister Lehnich extended greetings to me from Minister Goebbels. I responded by thanking him and extending greetings from Your Excellency.

The first visit to Munich was organized by Minister Iehnich to the Bavaria Film studios. These studios have a history of their own. After an important past in the development of German cinematography, as Munich has always tended to counter the "commercialism" of Berlin's Ufa and Tobis with a concept of art and, in any case, quality, Bavaria went bankrupt. The failure was determined by the state's hostility towards the Jews who administered and directed the Munich film "detachment." After the bankruptcy, the Jews were undoubtedly first excluded and then expelled, so that Bavaria Film remained closed for about two years ... omitted... thinking of Germany... or will its titanic power be stopped by one of those infinitesimal and imponderable quid that have often played a bizarre, tragic, and ironic role in German history? In both cases, the future is hidden in the same shadow of mystery . LUIGI FREDDI "

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(Web sources, Wikipedia - "Luigi Freddi embraced the theses of the Futurist movement, was a Fiume legionary, editor of the «Popolo d'Italia», a squadrista, among the founders of the Student Vanguard within the Fasci di Combattimento, first secretary in 1921 of the Fascist Youth Vanguard and director of the magazine «Giovinezza». Head of the press office of the PNF (1923-24), vice-secretary of the Italian Fasci abroad (1927) and vice-director of the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution.