Word: badoglio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in faultless Italian, the Mayor of the world's biggest city broadcast to Italy. Addressing Count Sforza (famed anti-Badoglio Liberal) as "my dear friend," Fiorello LaGuardia said: "We are at a loss here to understand the political situation in Italy. ... The policy of our Government ... is that . . . the form of permanent Government to be adopted, and the economy of the country, are to be left entirely to the decision of the people of Italy. . . . Inasmuch as a change is to be made, it should be made without delay. ... It should not be hampered by anything related...
...Pietro Badoglio's regime got the strongest shot in the arm it has so far received from the Allies. The Allied Military Government withdrew from Sicily, Sardinia, and the Italian mainland south of the Salerno-Bari line...
...Marshal Badoglio's rule, previously restricted to the Adriatic heel of Italy, was extended to all of these areas, with the following provisos: 1) the Italian administration, both central and local, must be by men of good faith, sympathetic to the Allies; 2) this temporary step involves no Allied commitment to the Marshal or to King Vittorio Emanuele III after the capture of Rome; 3) the Italian armistice continues, subjecting the Badoglio government to military control if necessary...
...Badoglio's Victory. The antiroyalist coalition which recently met at Bari (TIME, Feb. 14) established the "Executive Junta of Liberated Italy" and demanded its recognition as the provisional government. Complained the men of Bari: "Fascism ... closed its ranks around the throne . . . and tries to prejudice the udgment [of the Allies...
...their present difficulties (see p. 24) Allied military commanders want no major political change. Badoglio, continuing to rule by decree, thanked the United Nations "in the name of the King and the whole Italian people" for their "generosity and confidence." The controlling political fact in Italy was nevertheless still a military fact: the Germans had not been defeated, still controlled more than three-fourths of the Italian mainland...