Word: badoglio
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...tired old men met last week in a three-story, brindle-yellow villa at an obscure and dirty Italian town. The men were King Vittorio Emanuele, who is 74 and has ruled for 43 years, and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who is 72 and has been his King's most obedient follower. The question they met to discuss was whether the King should abdicate, or the Marshal should resign as the head of what passes currently for the Italian Government...
...King's Men. The King of Italy is a small man with a Savoy chin, a fat income, an unfortunate record, and the backing of constitutionality as interpreted by the Allied military mission which operates in the present "capital" of Italy. Badoglio has the stocky build of a peasant, the twinkling blue eyes of Northern Italy, a soldier's sense of duty and the current sympathy of U.S. and British military men and diplomats...
...Allied mission is headed by steel-grey Lieut. General F. N. Mason-MacFar-lane ("Mason Mac"), Governor of Gibraltar; its Chief of Staff is 42-year-old U.S. Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor. The mission, the King and Badoglio all profess to have Italy's best interests at heart, but insist that their actions be judged first by the immediate necessity of driving out the Germans. Their joint plan is to broaden the flimsy base of the Badoglio Government by including in it the top leadership of the six political parties which have survived or sprung...
...villa at Sorrento, Senator Benedetto Croce, philosopher, literary critic and anti-Fascist intellectual, told U.S. correspondents that Italy's best immediate hope would be the abdication of King Vittorio Emanuele and his son Umberto, followed by a regency under 72-year-old Marshal Pietro Badoglio for Umberto's son, the six-year-old Prince of Naples...
...According to the A.P., Marshal Badoglio broke the news to Vittorio Emanuele that no representative government could be formed while he, the King of Italy for 43 years, remained on the throne...