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...Ethiopia's Emperor to consent to receive in Addis Ababa a League High Commissioner who would reorganize the Ethiopian police, finances, jurisprudence, education and health services. Numerous Europeans, nominated by the League, would be needed to put through these reforms. Depending on whether the reforming Europeans were predominantly Italian???and the Committee of Five omitted the vital question of their nationality completely last week?this plan might offer something or nothing to Il Duce...
...Plymouth Harbor Sir Percy Graham Mackinnon of Lloyd's boarded the Artiglio II with the customs agents. Commander Quaglia was sitting in a deck chair under a huge sun umbrella. On their knees at his feet were two ship captains?one an Englishman, one an Italian???washing sovereigns in a basin, counting and bagging them. The ecstatic crew galloped at their jobs, contemptuously trampling and scattering bundles of rupee notes on the after deck. Commander Quaglia saluted his visitors. One of the customs men showed Commander Quaglia an official document: "Sorry, sir. A warrant for the arrest of the gold...
...Living Mask. Another Pirandello play has come to baffle wit and start psychopathic conversation. The play was originally named Henry IV, because the hero?an embittered contemporary Italian???is discovered at a masquerade carnival in the guise of Emperor Henry IV (the one who went to Canossa barefoot in the snow to ask the Pope's pardon). The masquerading Italian is pitched off his horse onto a stone, and when he wakes up believes himself to be the actual Henry...
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