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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...
...Tripoli and Benghazi, where proconsuls of the Phoenicians, the Caesars and the Ottomans once reigned, and the shards of Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrust-Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan -were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries...
...national per capita income is $35 a year-lowest of all Arab countries, with the possible exception of Yemen. Italians. of whom there are still 47,000 out of the thousands who immigrated to Libya when it was to become Mussolini's model col ony, still hold many of the best jobs, own the best farms, run the best businesses. Eight-tenths of the people are farmers or nomadic herdsmen, yet a U.N. survey team reports discouragedly that the country "is hardly able to afford an adequate diet for its own people...
...Negros Occidental was a well-run little police state and its Mussolini was Governor Rafael Lacson. He was, that is, until last month's election...
NATO (12 nations), meeting in Rome. The rank and brass of the North Atlantic alliance assembled in what used to be known as the Foro Mussolini, a flamboyant pile of buildings, Gargantuan statues and stone slabs commemorating Fascist triumphs. Heading the yoman U.S. delegation: three cabinet members (Acheson, Lovett and Snyder) and the nation's top ranking soldier, General Omar Bradley...