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...shadows of Harry Hopkins' first evening in Italy were falling on sad, eternal Rome when he drove to the somber Palazzo Chigi. There, in a dun-walled room once used by Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano, President Roosevelt's sour-faced emissary had a chat with Italy's pale Foreign Minister, gap-toothed Alcide De Gaspari...
Ethiopia's List. Last week came word that Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, who likes to keep abreast of European developments, had also submitted (to Britain) a list of war criminals he wants returned to Ethiopia for trial. Among them: Benito Mussolini, Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...Arithmetic books offered this typical problem: "In order to live Mussolini once had to work as a stone mason. He describes it in his diary. He worked eleven hours per day, received 32 centesimi per hour, made 121 trips per day with his wheelbarrow full of stones. How many lire did he make per day, per week? How many trips with his wheelbarrow did he make per month...
...extension of the commission's powers to try Nazis for crimes against their own nationals, e.g., Jews. The answer, which arrived four months later, said: no. Sir Cecil's second letter, written last October, asked for international courts to try arch war criminals like Hitler, Himmler, Mussolini. The answer, which arrived three months later, said: no. A fortnight ago Sir Cecil wrote a third letter: his resignation. This week he was succeeded by Lord Justice Finlay, eminent British jurist...
Next day, the New York Herald Tribune coldly took Tourist Crawford to task for his talk. "We used to have the American who applauded Mussolini because he ran trains on time. . . . Now we have Mr. Crawford . . . who believes France is a land of luxury because the Ritz Hotel. . . still has its big brass doorknobs. With this type of innocent abroad . . . there is not much that can be done...