Can you imagine Malta without giants like Nerik Mizzi, Herbert Ganado, Sir Arturo Mercieca and Vincenzo Bonello?
These four men and 38 others were interned wit
Part one of an article about two unpublished letters written by Nerik Mizzi while in Africa to the Governor of Malta.
Dom Mintoff may have excelled in many fields but his virtues hardly included praising others, least of all his political adversaries. Yet, something once made him break his quite habitual contrariness.
Enrico Mizzi in an internment camp in East Africa in World War II. Photo courtesy of the Fortunato and Enrico Mizzi Foundation
When Enrico Mizzi died in December 1950, he gushed in overwhelming tribute: “The greatest of all Maltese,” he warbled in Parliament.
Only the superlative would do for his lifetime opponent.