Word: badoglio
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...political TNT and calmly lit a cigar. He had arrived in Italy four days before the Allied armada invaded southern France, three days after the sudden arrival of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Since then he had talked to Tito, to Italy's Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, Marshal Badoglio, Lieutenant of the Realm Prince Umberto, to Pope Pius XII. These talks might have concerned military plans. They almost certainly concerned the future plans of Britain and Russia in the Balkans, in Italy, in the eastern Mediterranean. In the case of Pope Pius XII, they concerned Poland. The newsmen wanted...
...total war. . . . Our enemies believe that we are at our end; they will soon have to admit, to their own horror, that we are now no more than starting in many fields. . . . The small clique of traitors . . . [who] tried desperately to play government . . . miscalculated. They can't play Badoglio with us. ... The Almighty desires that we should continue to earn our victory, so that one day He will be able to hand us the laurels...
...seat at Rome. Bearded, bitter Premier Ivanoe Bonomi and his fellow ministers held their first meeting in the greystone Palazzo del Viminale. It was an unhappy, feckless af fair. Almost a year after Italy's surrender, little more than a month after the ousting of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's Government had neither power nor responsibility. It could do little without Allied permission. It administered in name, under the cloud of defeat, under the weight of the Allies' unpublished armistice...
...101st Airborne: Brigadier General Maxwell D. Taylor, 42-year-old West Pointer, best known for his dangerous mission to Rome to negotiate armistice details with Marshal Badoglio just before the landing at Salerno...
Ciano was the last to testify. He did not behave well. Ciano called it "absolutely absurd that we ... wanted to ruin the Duce, since we would be buried in the ruin." But he admitted that after the Council meeting he had gone to Marshal Badoglio, asked for a passport for himself, his wife Edda and their children. Prince Otto von Bismarck, Counselor of the German Embassy and a close friend, promised to put a plane at Ciano's disposal. Ciano was spirited into the plane, but it flew to Germany, not to Spain as he intended. Later Edda...