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Almost at once, alarmed Italian monarchists and republicans launched a heavy, attack on the Communist-supported coalition cabinet of Liberal Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, threatened to overthrow...
Italy's forlorn Government shuffled up from Salerno, creaked into a new seat at Rome. Bearded, bitter Premier Ivanoe Bonomi and his fellow ministers held their first meeting in the greystone Palazzo del Viminale. It was an unhappy, feckless af fair. Almost a year after Italy's surrender, little more than a month after the ousting of Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Italy's Government had neither power nor responsibility. It could do little without Allied permission. It administered in name, under the cloud of defeat, under the weight of the Allies' unpublished armistice...
...Winston Churchill, angered by the exclusion of royalist Marshal Pietro Badoglio (TIME, June 26), was astounded and chagrined by the behavior of General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Allied commander in Italy. General Alexander not only accepted Bonomi, but put up practically no fight to keep Mr. Churchill's favorite, Badoglio, in the new Government...
...When Churchill raised the roof, Bonomi finally offered Badoglio a job in the new Cabinet as Defense Minister. The old Marshal had the grace and good sense to decline, offered to serve his country whenever he is both needed and wanted...
...valid reason for keeping Badoglio in the Government was that he and shelved King Vittorio Emanuele III had signed the Italian armistice. That document was still in effect, still a factor in Allied relations with Italy. Before he would consent to swallow Bonomi & Co., Mr. Churchill reportedly insisted that each member of the new Cabinet sign the armistice, accept its terms in toto...