Word: badoglio
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This vignette of violence had a moral: it happened in a town where a Fascist still held office. Here, as in most of the liberated land turned over to King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio, things were not going well. As U.S. officers had testified (TIME, April 24), Allied prestige had fallen...
Paragon's Job. But there was hope. Old Marshal Pietro Badoglio belatedly consulted southern Italy's six anti-Fascist parties, gave them seven of 13 cabinet portfolios in a broadened government. The cleanup of known Fascists, at first very slow, had been speeded up (total ousted to date: 820). The AMG in Italy, largely staffed by British and U.S. businessmen with no nose for Fascists, had been absorbed by the better-run Allied Control Commission under British Lieut. General Mason-Macfarlane. In particular, an Italian-American from New York had brought to bear a great deal of political...
...serve in a coalition government. Count Carlo Sforza, most bitter critic of the tarnished House of Savoy, also appeared ready to go along. At week's end the six-party junta, without enthusiasm, accepted the King's decision. This week Vittorio Emanuele accepted the resignation of Pietro Badoglio's Royalist Cabinet, ordered the Premier to form a new one with Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Actionist, Christian Democrat and Labor Democrat representatives...
Said U.S. Lieut. Colonel G. H. McCaffrey: "The people in southern Italy . . . are definitely opposed to the Badoglio Government. . . . There is a continual slowdown in all work. . . . Officials appointed by us have been replaced with Fascists, and some removed by us for Fascist views have been reinstated. There is still graft, resulting in looting of food." Fascist youth organizations have reappeared under new names. Italians have come to distrust their liberators. The Allies seem to be losing both prestige and popularity...
What Says the King? When Marshal Pietro Badoglio heard of Umberto's interview he denied that it had occurred: Umberto's move threatened to precipitate a shakeup which the old Marshal has tried to avoid. Anti-Fascists, including outspoken Democrat Count Carlo Sforza and compromising Communist Palmiro Togliatti soon justified Badoglio's concern. They and other members of a six-party executive junta met at the Sorrento villa of Philosopher Benedetto Croce. They had been more inclined toward a regency around Umberto's six-year-old son, the Prince of Naples. Now they embraced Umberto...