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...conversations with Prime Minister Signer Bonomi, and also talked with him and Marshal Badoglio together-they are friends. The Marshal faithfully observed the conditions imposed at the armistice a year ago. He has done his best to send all possible Italian forces, particularly naval forces, into the struggle with Germany and he has worked steadily for improving relations between Italy and Britain and between Italy and the Allies...
Good Intentions. In the fourth month of Rome's occupation, Italians were hungry, dirty, ragged and undecided. Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's six-party government was bumblingly, quarrelsomely impotent, unable even to impose order. It had no system of communication with the provinces. It lacked even the cars and gasoline to send its members for reports. Superimposed on it was a bumbling, Anglo-U.S. military bureaucracy, four-fifths British brains, four-fifths U.S. supplies. But neither brains nor supplies counted enough, because neither the A.C.C. nor Washington and London seemed to have a clear idea of what...
Italian chaos was on two levels. On the upper, Communists, Socialists, Actionists cross-hauled each other. Socialists demanded Italy for Italians while their Communist associates-of-the-moment demanded Italian land for Italian peasants. Both roundly, steadily attacked the Bonomi Government, of which each was a part. The politically important Action Party attacked the Communists, charged the Reds with violence in breaking up Action Party rallies. The force of these conflicts constantly cross-hauled the people on the lower level...
...open barrel of 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...
...Prime Minister! Mr. Prime Minister! What did you and Bonomi talk about...