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Until Rodolfo Graziani made it a terrifying reality for thousands of conquered Africans, the Graziani family motto - "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes" - was no more sinister than scores of other Italian family mottoes handed down from the age of feuding dynasties. Soldier Graziani was 32 years old and a loud-voiced, hulking 6 ft. 4 in. when World War I broke out. But though twice wounded and twice decorated, he found himself among Italy's millions of jobless at war's end. When the government called for volunteers to "pacify" Libya, Graziani rejoined...
...women and children, and put them in concentration camps. In pursuit of the Senussi he sent "flying tribunals," which tortured their captives, hung them in bags from tall trees and dropped them out of airplanes. When Senussi Chief Omar El Muktar surrendered and asked for the status of a forgiven enemy, Graziani had him shot as a bandit...
Royal Schooling. Over a long luncheon and until late into the afternoon, avoiding mention of Don Juan's own claims to the throne (Franco has never forgiven him for certain anti-Franco remarks made in 1945), they discussed the education of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria. The 17-year-old Juanito has just completed his secondary education at Madrid's aristocratic St. Isideo high school and is at present staying with his exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters...
...debate began, Georges Bidault and his Catholic M.R.P., professed friends of a united Europe, bided their time. "Don't get yourself worked up," the M.R.P.'s Francois de Menthon mocked Premier Mendes-France. "We've already decided to deal with you later." They have never forgiven him his share in the defeat of their...
...perhaps unfortunate that the 1951 Packard assigned to meet Haile Selassie broke down, that the cops completely forgot their rigid eyes-front attitude and gazed instead with open curiosity as Haile Selassie strolled past. But then, it had been a long time between emperors, and Viennese could be forgiven if for a single nostalgic moment last week they forgot themselves in a past sung in three-quarter time...