An anti-Fascist who resisted dictator Benito Mussolini, he was rewarded at the end of World War II with the job of liquidating the state-owned oil company.

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In 1951, President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the U.S. and Germany.

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Command that's based in Seoul and move to end the state of war that exists on the Korean Peninsula, which continues six decades after fighting stopped because an armistice, not a peace treaty, ended the war.

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