Quella mattina del 25 luglio 1943. Mussolini, Shinrokuro Hidaka e il progetto di pace separata con l’Urss.

On the late morning of the 25th July 1943 Mussolini received, at Palazzo Venezia, the Japanese ambassador Shinrokuro Hidaka, for his latest State appointment as Prime Minister before being overthrown from power by the King’s decision. After a cross review of the diplomatic papers, the Authors stress that the attempt made by Mussolini with Hidaka on the subject of a separate peace with the Ussr, far from being an occasional and desperate act useful only in his political gambling corresponded to a precise trend of the Italian diplomacy, which met significant correspondence both in German and Japanese political circles. In particular the Authors, in the final paragraphs of the article, address the complex question of the nazi-soviet negotiations (from 1941 to 1944), for a compromise peace with the Japanese good offices

Un’analitica ricostruzione dei tentativi di pace separata tra Urss e Terzo Reich e degli sforzi della diplomazia italiana e nipponica per renderla possibile basata su una documentazione diplomatica inedita inglese, francese, tedesca, italiana, nipponica.