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...Allied bombings, 1,600 tons of bombs, were enough for Rome. The day after the second heavy U.S. raid on the Italian capital last week, the Government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio tried to call a halt by declaring Rome an open city. The broadcast announcement said: "Now all necessary measures in conformity with international law are being taken...
...Italian declaration was unilateral-there was no neutral power to back up Badoglio's assurances. There was, in fact, no party but Badoglio's Government to assure the Allies that the capital was being divested of all military usefulness to the Axis armies. But there was plenty of reason to doubt that...
...Rome, as the capital of Fascismo and now of Badoglio's government, is almost as crammed as Washington with governmental offices and employes. At least 500,000 government workers and 100,000 officials were in Rome at the outbreak...
Political objectives were meshed with the military. The bombardiers' sights aimed at railroad yards, aircraft plants, armament works"and the will of the Italian people. The Allied High Command had had enough of temporizing by Premier Pietro Badoglio. With the bombs on Italy's cities fell leaflets goading the people: "The Mussolini Government is gone, but the Nazi war continues...
...Peace. The people responded with anger and dismay. In Milan, despite Premier Badoglio's ban against public assemblies, they gathered in shattered streets and cried: "We got rid of one tyranny; now we must remove another." In Rome crowds shouted "Peace!" and knelt to pray with Pope Pius XII who came from the Vatican to see the raid damage...