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...little King's political opponents had not held firm. First to break the united front of the six anti-Fascist parties, which at Bari last January called for the King's abdication, were the Communists. Pronounced their little, bespectacled leader, Palmiro Togliatti, recently returned from a long exile in Moscow: The "monarchical question" must be "shelved in the interests of national unity" and the war against Germany. Philosopher Benedetto Croce then expressed willingness to serve in a coalition government. Count Carlo Sforza, most bitter critic of the tarnished House of Savoy, also appeared ready to go along...
...Kansas City Star, had written a letter to lean, leathery Major General Alexander Day Surles, head of Army Public Relations. Roberts asked to know more about Army censorship practice. In reply, General Surles retold three long-suppressed stories: 1) the Patton soldier-slapping (TIME., Nov. 29) ; 2) the Bari disaster (TIME, Dec. 27) ; 3) the loss of 23 U.S. transport planes and 410 men to Allied guns at Gela (TIME, March 27). Wrote General Surles...
...Bari: "The Germans tried a new method of attack to evade radar . . . blew up two ships filled with ammunition, causing great damage. . . . German reconnaissance the next day had no idea of the extent of the damage. . . . There was an immediate job to be done in harbor clearance, reorganization of radar and fighter coverage before ordinary security would allow them to know the extent of their operation." (The U.S. press got its first news of Bari 15 days after the attack...
...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...
When Italian antiFascists assembled in Bari on Jan. 28 to demand his abdication, the left-over Fascists and opportunists still in office in Apulia tried to stop the meeting by decreeing that visitors to Bari must have special health permits to enter the city. The meeting, held nevertheless, received its answer a few days later; the Allies turned over new and additional parts of liberated Italy, including Sardinia and Sicily, to the control of the Emanuele-Badoglio Government...