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Home to Jail. In a very different mood was another prominent D.P., haggard Countess Edda Ciano, daughter of the late Benito Mussolini, widow of the Jate Count Galeazzo Ciano. From her Swiss refuge (a nerve hospital), she had watched the collapse of Fascism. Now she had to go home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate...
...Barcelona the haggard refugee and his wife boarded the same Luftwaffe plane with the same Luftwaffe pilots who had flown them in. A few hours later they came down on a U.S. Army airfield in Austria. Rumor said that Traitor Laval had vainly offered his German pilots one million francs if they would head for Portugal. U.S. officers promptly turned Laval over to the French, who flew him to Paris...
Both held themselves aloof from the throng, waiting impatiently for a reply. When the answer came back negative, the Princess stormed in a torrent of German and stilted English, then wept while her harassed, haggard husband tried to comfort her. Other refugees looked on incuriously, each wrapped in his own cares. When her weeping slackened, she turned to the G.I. guarding the bridge with an ingratiating smile: "But you don't understand, they are going to kill...
...between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana saw him ten years later, he was a tragic spectacle. Johnson still looked very young, "but pale, haggard and trembling. He stood by the fireplace, with a tall glass of whiskey and soda at his elbow and talked wildly of persecution. The police, he said, were after him everywhere. . . . He quivered with excitement, hatred and imagined terrors. . . . When at last he found his glass empty [he] left without...
...late at night. In the austere conference room of the British military headquarters in Athens stood four dejected Greeks. Three were dressed in ragged civilian clothes. The fourth wore the dirt-stained uniform of the guerrilla forces (which included a turtleneck sweater). All were haggard and unshaven. They were the delegates of the ELAS Central Committee. No one spoke...