Word: badoglio
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...meaning of troop concentrations along the Austrian border, but the troops were over the line before the official answer came through. By the time the new German plenipotentiary, Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, called at the Foreign Office to explain suavely that Germany could not risk the rise of a Badoglio, German SS men were already stopping trains and hauling out Jews for "questioning." The Germans had long enjoyed the right to send 40 military trains a day through Hungary, fly their planes wherever they chose. Thus, when the rude awakening came, occupation was complete before those who might have tried...
...Firmly said nothing about Friend Joseph Stalin's recognition of the Badoglio regime, except to reply to a reporter's query about its possible impact on international relations. He expected no impact...
Stalin's bombshell announcement that the U.S.S.R. would exchange representatives with Badoglio's Government caused a lot of teeth-gnashing and fingernail-chewing. It vexed the U.S. State Department, puzzled the British and alarmed Communists. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced coldly that the U.S. would not follow its ally's lead and "recognize" the Badoglio Government. Communists throughout the world bowed their Red heads and took it like party members. Naples' Communist Paolo Tedeschi declared: "Perhaps the recognition embarrassed us somewhat. . . but it will neither lessen our sympathy . . . for Russian Communism nor . . . our determination...
...bright with flags: seven Russian, one American, no British and a spate of Italian with the arms of the House of Savoy removed. Three of Italy's antiroyalist parties-Communists, Socialists and Carlo Sforza's Actionists-brought out some 7,000 cheering, rain-soaked Neapolitans to boo Badoglio and the King, shout fiercely for a republic. The biggest meeting so far permitted by the Allies, it was a Neapolitan answer to Churchill's endorsement of their unwanted government.* The show ended with a ragged Partisan from Marshal Tito on stage, shouting "Down with the King and Badoglio...
Next day they learned that Badoglio and Stalin had decided to exchange ambassadors, a kind of recognition never vouchsafed to Badoglio by Britain and the U.S. The news left Leftists floundering...