Word: badoglio
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...Dilemma. A message smuggled from Rome to Bari, and signed by representatives of the six parties, gave an account of guerrilla activities, of sabotage and strikes organized by the underground Italian Committee of Liberation in Nazi-occupied territory, complained bitterly that "in this fight, the Government [of Marshal Badoglio] is not participating." Count Sforza accused the Marshal of removing secondary figures but protecting those principally responsible for Fascism's misdeeds. He concluded: "To save Italy, the King and his most important accomplices must be eliminated...
...united. Not until Vittorio Emanuele III abdicates can Italy get even a provisional democratic government representing the parties at the Bari Congress. If the Bari resolutions are to be more than words, two things must happen: 1) the U.S. and Britain must turn away from the King and Marshal Badoglio; 2) the apathetic Italian masses, not all of whom love the Allies, must be roused to an interest in democracy as intense as that of the men at Bari...
Twice before the Allied Command had planned a flanking blow. In mid-September all was ready to strike at Rome with airborne troops. The men were already in their planes when Marshal Pietro Badoglio withdrew pledged support, compelled the Allies to give up the operation...
Marshal Pietro Badoglio's diplomatic staff, who left Rome in a hurry without their grey-striped trousers, finally got in touch with a tailor. He cut them new pairs from the only cloth he could get: brown-spotted yellow tweed...
...badly the Allied command may have miscalculated the total effects, the sudden Italian surrender last September dangerously exposed the Nazi line across southern Europe. But the Wehrmacht had anticipated the Anglo-American landing at Salerno, thereby scotched the Allied plan for a sweep to Rome. It accurately gauged the Badoglio Government's weakness. It understood the possibilities of terrain and weather, knew how to capitalize on them. It won time to build a vicious, vexing defense in depth...