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Mintoff – Putting the record straight – Joseph Pirotta


As a historian who has spent more than 40 years researching the final 20 years of Malta’s colonial period, I cannot allow to go uncorrected some important historical inaccuracies contained in the excerpt from Rev. Mark Montebello’s biography,
The Tail that Wagged the Dog. The Life and Struggles of Dom Mintoff 1916-2012 (The Sunday Times of Malta, July 11).
Montebello claims that Mintoff resigned on December 14, 1957, due to “a seemingly impertinent letter” from the Admiralty Section of the GWU “which showed a lack of confidence in his leadership”. The facts were rather different.
With the livelihood of thousands of dockyard workers uncertain, the Admiralty Section called a national (that is non-partisan) protest rally at the Floriana Granaries to be followed by a silent march in Valletta. ....

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