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...never forgotten, never forgiven the British for training tank guns on his palace in 1942, to force him to make Nahas Pasha Premier. At the time (Rommel's forces were threatening Alexandria), Nahas, curiously enough, was Britain's friend, while the King's nominee for Prime Minister was pro-Axis...
Last week, eight years after the defeat of Mussolini, Italy's role as an Axis aggressor was formally forgiven by a majority of her former enemies and present friends. By a simple declaration, the U.S., Britain, France and seven other nations annulled 29 clauses of the 1947 peace treaty, including the clause that indicted Italy for its war guilt. Also abandoned were the clauses that limited Italy's army to 250,000 men, its navy to 25,000 sailors and a handful of warships, its air force to 350 planes, its cavalry to 200 tanks, its ordnance...
Last year, urged on by hard-headed ECA advisors from the U.S., Vanoni ordained a new deal. It provided simply that everyone concerned trust each other and tell the truth. Two months ago, their past sins forgiven and forgotten in accordance with the new law, the taxpayers of Italy filled out the government's new 16-page tax returns and shipped them...
...terrible aboriginal calamity...For freedom is the knowledge of necessity, and the necessity of the human is love, and the necessity of love is existence, and the necessity of existence is two sinning in a bed, and the necessity of two sinning in a bed is to be forgiven. It is thus that our only freedom is to be damned...
...check from the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, Good-Will Ambassador Sugar Ray Robinson lost his way in Paris traffic, kept the crowd (including at least one duchess and the wives of three cabinet ministers) waiting 30 minutes before he arrived in his fuchsia Cadillac convertible. All was forgiven when the middleweight champ from Harlem made a little speech in French, then topped it off with: "Hey, now I get to kiss Missus President!" With a gay blush, France's First Lady, Mme. Vincent Auriol, stood up for a kiss on each cheek...