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Died. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, 73, onetime bigwig Italian diplomat, who, as a delegate to the League of Nations, was Mussolini's chief apologist for the invasion of Ethiopia; in Rome...
...last vans full of plaster and clay models of sculpture by Mountain-Carver Gutzon Borglum, who closed up his studio and left Texas for good last month after the contract for San Antonio's greatest memorial, the Alamo Cenotaph, was awarded not to him but to pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas boiled over on the subject of the Texas...
...scheduled for 5 o'clock. At 4:45 p. m. Belaten Guetta Wolde Mariam Ayelen, Ethiopia's League delegate, accompanied by his secretary and Swiss legal adviser, arrived at the Palace, went directly to the Council room. In a few minutes in walked Italy's Baron Pompeo Aloisi, Anthony Eden and other members of the Council. Captain Eden gravely presided...
...room stalked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as Ethiopia's Mariam rose to read a pitiful telegram from nerve-shattered Haile Selassie, begging the League to "take no action that would legitimize Italy's outrageous aggression...
Aloisi's Triumph, If it was a bad week for Anthony Eden, it was a glorious week for Il Duce's faithful Geneva delegate, Baron Pompeo Aloisi. The ears of this onetime naval officer have burned for months with bitter messages from his boss over his failure to halt the application of League sanctions. The belated success of Italy's armies in Africa did the Baron no good, but last week he was in a position to crow, and he took full advantage...