Word: ethiopia
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...Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia heard a fellow officer declare him guilty of military collaboration with the Germans during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered...
Died. Sem Benelli, 72, Italy's on-again-off-again Fascist poet and playwright (The Jest), a leader with the late Luigi Pirandello in the modern Italian theater, veteran of Mussolini's 1935-36 march on Ethiopia (I Was in Africa); in Genoa...
...years, with independence promised at that time. To appease the Arabs, Libya was promised freedom by 1952, with a U.N. commission to supervise the establishment of an independent government. Eritrea will be polled by a five-nation committee next year to see if it wishes to join Ethiopia...
...Assembly also put Italian Somaliland (pop. 915,000) under a ten-year Italian trusteeship, to be followed by full independence. The fate of Eritrea, Italy's third former colony, which Ethiopia would like to annex, will be considered later, after a U.N. commission makes a firsthand study...
...question of diplomatic relations with Franco Spain*; the Dutch-Indonesian dispute; and the disposition of the former Italian colonies. In the Political Committee, the Russians promptly made a grab for partial control of the Italian colonies. The U.S. (backed by Britain) wanted to give part of Eritrea to Ethiopia, proposed giving Britain U.N. trusteeship over Cyrenaica, and Italy trusteeship over Italian Somaliland. The U.S. and Britain, rasped Russia's Andrei Gromyko, were trying to divide up the colonies "as if they were sitting at a table drinking champagne." He demanded a joint U.N. trusteeship (in which the Russians would...