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Died. Field Marshal Earl Wavell, 67, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, onetime (1943-47) Viceroy of India, author (Allenby: A Study in Greatness), poet, historian and scholar; after an abdominal operation; in London. Taciturn, one-eyed Field Marshal Wavell mastered desert fighting under the late great Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, horse-cavalry victor of the 1917-18 Palestine campaign; as commander in chief in the Middle East, Wavell smashed Graziani's Italian army during the 1940 North African campaign; after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense...
...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...
When the verdict had been read, the 67-year-old former field marshal stepped over to his carabinieri guard. "Andiamo, andiamo [Let's go, let's go]," he snapped. Then, without raising his eyes, Rodolfo Graziani drew on his gloves and walked with faltering dignity from the courtroom...
...London, on his 67th birthday, Field Marshal Earl Wavell, who fought hard and well in North Africa against Field Marshal Erwin ("Desert Fox") Rommel, underwent a serious abdominal operation...
...third world held jubilee in Belgrade. There the Yugoslav comrades, led by Marshal Tito, cheered for the people's revolution and independent Communism, promenaded under the portraits of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Nowhere was there any picture of Stalin...