The rôle of Evola under the Fascist regime and his connections with
the Fascist hierarchy have given way to many speculations, which, for
most of them, border on gossiping, as we have showed on various
occasions.
Just before we publish in French an article by Evola on baron von
Ungern still unpublished in this language, we would like to take this
opportunity to add to this file, by bringing to the attention of the
Anglo-Saxon public data which can be found in the preface to 'I Testi
della Stampa', an anthology of the seventeen articles by Evola which
appeared in this well-known daily paper from Turin from October 1942
to December 1943 - in passing, it is in this paper that the only two
articles he published during the Republic of Salò appeared. Another
peculiarity of this collaboration lies in the fact that, unlike the
other papers' in which he collaborated, 'La Stampa''s public was not
familiar at all with everything which concerns the world of
Tradition.
According to the preface writer, the hypothesis that this
collaboration was due to the good offices of the Ministry of Popular
Culture is not unfounded. "As a matter of fact, in July 1941, Evola
had obtained an 'external collaboration' with the Ministry of Popular
Culture, as a reviser of texts and author of articles which were
given to papers and reviews. Later, Pavolini [Minister of Popular
Culture from the 31st October 1939 to the 8th February 1943] assigned
him to the Office for Studies and Propaganda on Race. In a 'note to
the Duce' of the 14th September 1941, it is written : "To develop and
to broaden the collaboration of Evola to the Office for Studies and
Propaganda on Race, we have thought of confiding him a fixed and
constant position in the Office itself. We submit to the high
decisions of the Duce the proposal to pay him a monthly allocation of
two thousands Lire". Below, a "yes", written with a pen, with the
signature "M"."
In this connection, and in support of this hypothesis, it can be
added that, according to Renzo De Felice, with respect to the part
which this Office had in the racial campaign, "from the 15th October,
every Wednesday evening at 19.30, edited by the Ministry of Popular
Culture, five programs of ten minutes on the 'Protocols of the Elders
of Zion', were broadcast."
"Besides, an article by Evola published in 'Il Corriere Padano' of
the 25th October 1941, and called 'La civiltà occidentale e
l'intelligenza ebraica', was preceded by the following note from the
editorial offices : "Under the aegis of The Race Department of the
Minister of Popular Culture, our collaborator, Julius Evola, has had
on the 22d [October 1941] at the E.I.A.R. [Ente Italiano per le
Audizioni Radiofoniche] an interesting radio-conversation on the
Jewish problem, of which we reproduce the whole text". Manifestly, it
is the second broadcast of the series of programs mentioned by De
Felice."
According to F. Cassetta, 'A destra del fascismo. Profilo politico di
Julius Evola', Bollati Boringhieri, Turin, 2003, pp. 266-287, the
allocation paid by the Racial Department, suspended in July-August
1943, was restored in September 1943, to be suppressed in November,
since Evola refused to leave Rome (see
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