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...Commanded the 82nd Airborne's artillery in the Sicilian and Italian campaigns. In 1943, running risks which Eisenhower called "greater than I asked any other agent or emissary to undertake during the war," Taylor slipped through German lines into Rome for armistice negotiations with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. For 24 hours, wearing a U.S. uniform, he went about his mission in Rome under the noses of the Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer to fight France...
Died. Benedetto Croce, 86, Italy's famed historian-philosopher, longtime (since 1910) member of the Italian Senate and member (for six weeks) of the post-surrender Badoglio cabinet; in Naples. Born into a wealthy family of Aquila, he went to Rome after his parents were killed in an earthquake and began his study of philosophy. A lifelong agnostic, he believed that the supernatural is no concern of the philosopher ("Man can only know that which he has experienced"), held that philosophy is no more than a method of history. He flirted briefly with Marxism, later with Fascism, quickly rejected...
...methodical Clara, included most of the "Dear Ben" letters she had written to Benito, plus recordings of her lover's own speeches and copies of his letters, a trunkful of trinkets and keepsakes, and volumes of diaries, including one kept on toilet paper during her imprisonment by the Badoglio government...
...Sigh of Relief. Other Italians understood him better. After the fall of Mussolini, they called Croce back into public life once more in Marshal Badoglio's cabinet. But his appearance was a brief one. With a sigh of relief he left public office for good, and went back home to a library that reached ladder-high ("How can a man live without books?"), and to a special Italian Institute of Historical Studies which he had long wanted to found...
...Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome for armistice talks with Premier Pietro Badoglio...