Leading 20th-century Catalan author Joseph Pla was surprised by Maltese society and its dialect Valletta in the 1950s had a “southern but clean appearance”; the Maltese preserved their “very strange ...
From the 1940s and 1955, young people in Malta between 12 and 25 years were under the tutelage and benevolent control of the Church and their parents. The State, up to the late 1940s, was not of much ...