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After Naples, Lang was with our men all through the bitter fighting along the Volturno. As the German barrage crept yard by yard along the river bank "three times soldiers I had talked with less than three minutes before were injured by artillery fire"-and he was in Bari last December when the Luftwaffe sank 17 Allied ships in "the costliest sneak attack since Pearl Harbor...
...ancient port of Bari, shattered by German bombs, 120 Italian delegates met after two decades of silence, privation and exile. The majority came from the liberated south, but many had made their way from the Nazi-occupied regions. They represented six Italian parties: the Party of Action, headed by grey-haired Count Carlo Sforza; the Christian Democrats (mainly peasants); the Socialists; the Liberals, headed by Philosopher-Senator Benedetto Croce; the Communists; the little-known Democratic Labor Party...
Resolve and Dilemma. A message smuggled from Rome to Bari, and signed by representatives of the six parties, gave an account of guerrilla activities, of sabotage and strikes organized by the underground Italian Committee of Liberation in Nazi-occupied territory, complained bitterly that "in this fight, the Government [of Marshal Badoglio] is not participating." Count Sforza accused the Marshal of removing secondary figures but protecting those principally responsible for Fascism's misdeeds. He concluded: "To save Italy, the King and his most important accomplices must be eliminated...
...prescription: just give them a play-byplay account of the real war, as swiftly, as honestly, and as completely as legitimate security reasons permit. He succeeded conspicuously in the days of Tarawa. But this was still the exception emphasizing the questionable rule that, for instance, was applied to the Bari disaster: to resent rather than encourage the people's desire to participate in the ups & downs of military operations...
...Washington last week, a belated and patently embarrassed tally of the disaster at Bari was finally made (see p. 19). Of the 30-odd ships in the harbor, at least 17 had been sunk-arnonj them five U.S. merchantmen. Some of the supplies had already been landed, but for two or three days the British Eighth Army battling in the north felt the pinch. Casualties totaled 1,000-"including 37 American Naval personnel...