Word: bonomi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's new Italian Government finally took office last week in Salerno, planned an early move to Rome. Correspondents picked up some intriguing gossip about the prelude to Allied approval...
Italy's new Premier, gentle Ivanoe Bonomi, got a rough ultimatum from London: put ex-Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio back in the Cabinet, or else. For Italy's anti-Fascist politicians, proud of their "pure-of-Fascism" Government, it was a grievous blow...
...shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian and Russian, leaned back and laughed while Italian resentment mounted against Britain...
Survivors from the old Cabinet included independent Count Carlo Sforza, elder Philosopher Statesman Benedetto Croce and aggressive young Communist Palermo Togliatti, who was known as "Ercole" (Hercules) when he worked with the defunct Communist International in Moscow. Said Bonomi of his Cabinet: "No one, absolutely no one, with any Fascist connections at all is in it; only men pure of Fascism...
...Bonomi & Co. paid no attention to the House of Savoy. Crown Prince Umberto, who had just taken over nominal rule (as Lieutenant-General of the Realm) from his father, Vittorio Emanuele III, heard about the new Government after it was formed. The new ministers swore fealty to the nation, not to the crown...