Word: badoglio
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...story begins in September 1943, one of the less humorous months in Italian history. On Sept. 3, the Allies cross from Sicily; on Sept. 8, the Badoglio government surrenders; on Sept. 10, the Germans start to take over; on Sept. 12, Mussolini escapes and sets up as a German puppet. Like most of his countrymen Lieut. Alberto Innocenzi (Alberto Sordi) gets dizzy on the seesaw of events...
Mission to Rome. In September 1943, with invasion imminent, Italy wanted desperately to surrender to the Allies. The Italians under Marshal Badoglio maintained that the 82nd could capture Rome by making a surprise landing. General Dwight Eisenhower assigned Taylor and Air Corps Colonel William T. Gardiner to check out the scheme by going to Rome...
...shot as spies. The two men transferred from a British PT boat to an Italian corvette and were put ashore in the port of Gaeta. They made the 75-mile trip to Rome in an Italian truck, stayed back of the enemy lines for two days, discovered that Badoglio could not give the necessary support to a landing, called off the attack by radio and were flown out to Tunis in an Italian plane. Eisenhower later wrote of Taylor: "The risks he ran were greater than I asked any other agent or emissary to undertake during...
...deputy chief of staff of the 15th Army Group, and commanding general of the U.S. contingent of that international force in Italy, he played a role in the negotiations with Premier Pietro Badoglio that led to Italy's capitulation in 1943. Later, dressed as a civilian (with a dachshund in tow), he managed the Allied discussions in Switzerland that preceded the German High Command's surrender in Italy and Southern Austria...
...mother before he spoke English, was given a large measure of credit for patching up the truce between the feuding French Generals Giraud and De Gaulle. He moved on to head the Allied Control Commission in Italy, where he conducted the negotiations with Italy's Marshal Badoglio. Late in the war Macmillan was sent to Greece to mediate in the savage civil war; he installed as Regent the bearded Archbishop Damaskinos, who held Greece in an uneasy peace for another year...