Word: castellano
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Samuel and Sir Ronald, General Castellano tendered a message from Marshal Badoglio: "When the Allies land in Italy, the Italian Government is prepared to join them against Germany...
London and Washington accepted this as a "serious proposal." Moscow was kept posted. A few days later the Allied armistice terms reached Lisbon. In the British Embassy, with U.S. Charge d'Affaires George Kennan present, the terms were given to General Castellano. Not long afterward several high officers flew up from North Africa, talked long and earnestly to Marshal Badoglio's colleague at a dinner that coursed through a whole night and into the dawn...
...General Castellano set off for Rome by a devious route. But the Badoglio Government, worried over his failure to report promptly, had sent out another mission to Lisbon. Again an Italian general was chosen, but now, as evidence of good faith, a captured British officer accompanied him. The officer was red-faced, one-armed, one-eyed Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned...
Parleys, Part III. General Castellano, meanwhile, had reached Rome. He quickly left again, this time for Sicily, where he met General Eisenhower's staff and the second general sent out by Marshal Badoglio. Presumably in Palermo, the parleys entered their final phase. In that city, on Aug. 29, American ack-ack gunners received startling orders. A Savoia-Marchetti bomber headed for the airfield was not to be fired on. The big plane slid down, and two Italian officers stepped out. On the 30th it took off again, escorted by three U.S. Lightnings. On the 31st it was back again...
...timing of the announcement, or Italy would suffer the full shock of Allied air power. The Marshal bowed. On Sept. 3, while Generals Eisenhower and Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander looked on, the Armistice was signed by U.S. Major General Walter B. Smith for the Allies, by General Castellano for Italy...