Yes, Mintoff turned to the NAM when he had to determine a foreign policy once in office, which was over a decade later.

Gaddafi made him do it.

Jozef, I think you’ve got it all wrong. If only Mintoff had been for the Warsaw Pact. At least we’d have become part of something, we’d have had a few cultural exchanges, and perhaps we’d have had our own cosmonaut. Besides which, we’d have joined a military alliance, which is better than nothing.

No. Mintoff was for the third way. The anti-colonialist chip-on-the-shoulder bloc. The Non-aligned Bloc in fact. Which we left, er, only when we joined the EU. So much for “biddilna lil Malta wara l-1987”. No cultural life. No exchange of technology. Nothing of interest. Mintoff was such a vile bastard that even the Soviets wouldn’t have him. So he rushed off to suck up to the likes of North Korea, China and Libya.

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I long for the day when you comment on what I write,by starting with a “Yes Silvio” up to now it has always been “No Silvio”You started with a NO when I said’

Gonzi is right to be cautious in dealing with the Libya crisis,

When I said that Stauss was being framed,

When I said that what Franco was suggesting as reforms,deserved being considered.
Funnily enough, even when I agree with you,you always start with a NO.

Now let’s see how you are going to start this.
No I never thought that Sant would make a good Prime minister,he is anything but a politician.

When I said that homosexuals should not be given too much air,as they will soon start dictating,
Funnily enough,even when I agree with you, you always start with a NO.

Sorry Daphne, I don’t agree with you. If that man had foresight he would have ingnored Mintoff and not given him all that importance that made him look a victim and a martyr.

All that Archbishop Gonzi had was ambition and sense of dictatorship; he couldn’t stand being contradicted and most of all he was a lackey of the British Crown.

What came next, as you say, was nothing but the fruit of the hatred he sowed.

[Daphne – No, Silvio, that’s not what I said. I said that what came next was inevitable – regardless of what Archbishop Gonzi said and did – and that Archbishop Gonzi had the foresight to see the inevitable consequences of having somebody as bitter and vengeful as Mintoff in power. It is fairly easy to predict what somebody will do with power by judging and assessing their personality and psychology before they become powerful. I trust you were one of those taken by surprise by Alfred Sant’s terrible performance as prime minister?]

I am ashamed of having given my approval to some of my generation who felt proud for having spat at the coffin carrying a Labourite to the mizbla.

I am ashamed when I think of one of my elder relatives boasting that he had refused to employ a father of four for being a Labourite, and telling him to ask Mintoff to feed his children.

I am ashamed for telling off a woman for knocking on our door asking for bread, because we were having lunch.

I am ashamed for having joined my friends in cleaning the Mile End with PURFUM after a Labour meeting.

I am ashamed for being assured that it was very difficut for children from Labourite families to be admitted to the college where I was enrolling my boys.

But most of all I am ashamed of having supported the man who sowed all this hate, and for thinking that he was a man of God.

[Daphne – If there is one thing you can’t accuse Archbishop Gonzi of, it’s lack of foresight. He could see what was coming next, and boy, was he ever right.]

John. You are right. I correct my statement.
Yep. Labour is going to build a steal industry in Malta.

Silvio, what Mark Montebello, and the other bunch of leftist ‘intellectuals’ never discuss, is why Mintoff embraced the Warsaw Pact instead of opting for the way chosen by European left who refuted the totalitarian tactics of the former.

It’s not as if he wouldn’t have found support for a more moderate ideology. Italy’s Partito Communista remained a viable opposition when it declared itself against the growing oppression in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, placing itself outside the Soviet hegemony.

It did so, knowing that the Emilia Romagna and Toscana regions, albeit red, were also proud catholics and wouldn’t accept an ideological war of attrition with the Vatican.

The socialists did the same in Lombardy and the Veneto regions where the Democrazia Cristiana was much stronger.

The same, although to a lesser degree, happened in West Germany and France.

Labour’s history as written by these individuals, lacks a serious analysis of the International political scenario in which the local incidents occurred. Mintoff’s struggle was proved fatuous when Kruschev himself denounced Stalin’s horrors. Which is what Mintoff’s threats could have been perceived as amounting to. He was wrong.

What we see today is the justification of the Irriducibili’s anti-European stance. As if people were thrown into some ditch and dirt bulldozed on top.

How exactly were the “English” your “masters” after 1964?