Word: rodolfos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo ("The Lion of Neghelli") Graziani, 69, who served part of a prison term for World War II collaboration with the Nazis, suffered a still further fall from honor. A government decree in Rome stripped him of four military medals for valor awarded between...
...curtains parted on the second act of La Bohème: the square outside the Café Momus, in Paris' Latin Quarter. A colorful crowd, self-conscious and unconvincingly hearty as most opera-players pretending to be real people, swarmed over the stage. The poet Rodolfo strolled in happily with his sweetheart Mimi, but his painter friend Marcello was in the dumps, and sang (in Italian): "Bring me an order of poison." He had just heard the jaunty voice of his faithless Musetta, who soon flounced in, all feathers and finery...
With the rest of his 19-year sentence for collaboration wiped out by amnesties, ailing, angry-eyed ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 68, stepped out of Rome's Montecelios Military Hospital into a hail of newspaper invective. From his villa east of Rome, the white-maned old "Lion of Neghelli" retorted to a columnist who had attacked him in the daily Il Paese. "I spit on your face a thousand times," he wrote. "You are a disgusting coward and I am sure you are very dirty...
...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...