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...Rose Mary, bound for Italy, neared the British colonial port of Aden, a strange battle took place on board between two crackling wireless receivers. Over one radio, Shipowner Nicolo Rizzi from Italy ordered Captain Giuseppe Jafrate to put in at Aden. Over the other, Italian Count Ettore della Zonca, who had chartered the ship, exhorted: "Go ahead! The world is watching...
...when he was 26, with the huge work for which he is still best known, the Symphonic Fantastique. Franz Liszt, eternal friend of struggling composers, made a piano transcription of it, won more fame for Berlioz by playing it all over Germany and France. Eight years later, famed Violinist Nicolo Paganini knelt before Berlioz in public, to show his admiration for Harold in Italy, a Berlioz symphony which is almost a concerto for viola. More important for the impecunious Berlioz, Paganini made him a gift of 20,000 francs...
Buchenwald had taught Mayor Doinel of Brunoy that "there are no good Germans." For five months he had blocked the marriage of his fellow townsman, swart Achille Nicolo, who had also returned from German captivity, with a German bride-to-be. But the Mayor could carry obstruction no further. The papers of the couple were in perfect order. The Department Subprefect had warned him that he must perform the ceremony...
Then M. Doinel turned his back. With hate looking on, M. and Mme. Nicolo did not exchange the nuptial kiss. Silently they left the wedding hall. A woman spectator spat...
...Potsdam conference made the peace treaty with Italy the first business of the Council of Five (the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China). Count Nicolo Carandini arrived in London after his final briefing in Rome to present Italy's case. His country was in neither a position nor a mood for hard bargaining. It planned to make concessions from the very first, in the hope of trading territory for Allied good will and economic help. A slight "rectification" of the French-Italian border would be acceptable. Italians would not argue long or loud to keep the South Tirol. Greece...