Word: badoglio
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Italy's new Premier, gentle Ivanoe Bonomi, got a rough ultimatum from London: put ex-Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio back in the Cabinet, or else. For Italy's anti-Fascist politicians, proud of their "pure-of-Fascism" Government, it was a grievous blow...
...went Marshal Pietro Badoglio, the old royalist who had held on through thick & thin until he reached Rome. In as Premier, Minister of War and Minister of Interior went white-haired Ivanoe Bonomi. His Cabinet, carefully balanced between North & South, included representatives of all six parties, four leaders of the Roman underground...
When Pietro Badoglio, Italian royalty's strongest supporter, came down the grand staircase and walked out of the hotel, crowds cheered him. The marshal entered his long, blue roadster, waved a hand at his admirers. Then he was driven away...
...Premier Badoglio and Vittorio Emanuele III have done well for the Allies. "I have every confidence in this Italian government. ... It will require further strengthening and broadening. . . . But, at any rate, it is facing its responsibilities manfully and is doing all in its power to aid the Allies." After the battles in Italy are won, the Italians will choose "whatever form of democratic government, whether monarchial or republican, they desire." Added the Prime Minister of a democratic monarchy: "I emphasize the word 'democratic' because it is quite clear that we shall not allow any form of Fascism...
...Orlemanski visit fitted into a pattern. So did Molotov's placatory statement on Rumania (TIME, April 10), Moscow's temperate attitude toward stubborn Finland and the recognition of Marshal Badoglio's tainted regime (see col. 2). Now a Springfield, Mass, priest, supporting a cause in which he himself believed, was apparently being used to underline Moscow's new technique of friendship...