ITALY: Honored and Free

Last week a black gentleman turned up in a captured Fascist internment camp at Ferremonte, presented himself to the U.S. Lieut. Larry Garcia, C.O., then brought in another black gentleman: His Excellency Mangesha Woube, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Italy. Ever since Italy grabbed Ethiopia in 1935, the Ambassador and his aide had been comfortably interned in a village near Cosenza. Happy and well treated, they did not want to leave, but Lieut. Garcia had orders to forward them to the Middle East.

Only available transportation to the coast was by boxcar, hardly...

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