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Letters in exile: Nerik Mizzi's passage to Egypt

This is part two of an article about two unpublished letters written by Nerik Mizzi while in Africa during the 1940s to the Governor of Malta. Read the first part here.
Just before leaving Grand Harbour, a British army captain, described by Albert Gauci as “
nofs karawetta b’ħafna stillel” (half a peanut with plenty of stars, meaning pips) and a navy officer, addressed the deportees in the hold.
He opened by stating that “though not in sympathy with us he had decided to treat us with fairness”. He invited them to wear a lifebelt but warned them that in case of ‘abandon ship’ no lifeboats would be available for the deportees but only rafts. The naval officer then threw in a chilling threat: “Anyone attempting to rush to the lifeboats would be shot.” ....

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Letters in exile: Nerik Mizzi's unpublished letters from Africa

Part one of an article about two unpublished letters written by Nerik Mizzi while in Africa to the Governor of Malta.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. ....

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