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Letters: In defence of Italy, and the rise and fall of the military moustache

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

Italy’s to-do list

Sir: You would expect a long letter of rebuttal by a piqued senior diplomat in response to the many barbs that Nicholas Farrell packed into his piece about Italy (‘The dying man of Europe’, 25 October). Among the most painful ones were that Italy is ‘almost doomed’ and parts of it are ‘hopeless’, which are far too simplistic statements.

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