“In the toast, at the breakfast in the Quirinale Palace, Pertini had the strange idea of apologizing to the Somalis for what the Italians did. The guest (Mohamed Siad Barre) replied that to Italy they had nothing but gratitude ; and that - Pertini clouded abruptly - in 1935 it was the Ethiopians and not the fascists who provoked the war ."
https://italiacoloniale.com/2018/10...erso-litalia-coloniale-non-gradita-da-pertini