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Crisis in Italy. In Italy the Government of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi faced a crisis almost as acute as that threatening Premier Pierlot. In Rome, the Socialists and Communists (whose Naples membership had bounded from 2,000 to 60,000 in a year) staged a huge public rally. Up the Palatine Hill trudged thousands of men & women, carrying big pictures of Stalin and Lenin and Hammer-&-Sickle flags. Soon the Domitian Stadium (some 175 yds. long by 52 wide) was jammed with 25,000 red-shirted demonstrators. Most of them were middleclass...
Four weeks ago, canny Giovanni Vis-conti-Venosta, Premier Bonomi's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, got tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote...
Honest old Premier Ivanoe Bonomi read a statement: the change in Italy's international status, he hoped, would eventually apply to internal affairs as well. That, Italians recalled, was their hope when they had cheered the Roosevelt-Churchill order to drop the hated word "control" from Allied Control Commission, the Roosevelt-Churchill promise of greater authority for the Italian Government...
Sicilian separatists want independence from Italy. Last week Sicilian separatism reached the shooting stage. In Palermo, Italian troops tommy-gunned 2,500 rioting Sicilians, killed 19, wounded 102. In Rome dry, precise British Ambassador Sir Noel Charles conveyed to Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's hard-pressed Government a precise, official message from London: any report that Britain was supporting Sicilian separation was utterly false...
...than 650 billion lire, is still soaring. Bank notes in circulation have doubled since the Allied invasion, now stand at the fantastic high of 260 billion lire. The Allied currency contributed only a small part to this increase, which mainly came from the frantic efforts of the Badoglio-through-Bonomi Governments to keep afloat. With a Government budget of 100 billion lire and revenue of 20 billion, little more than enough to pay the interest on the national debt, the Italians have had to work the printing presses overtime...