Word: savoyism
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...Togliatti, recently returned from a long exile in Moscow: The "monarchical question" must be "shelved in the interests of national unity" and the war against Germany. Philosopher Benedetto Croce then expressed willingness to serve in a coalition government. Count Carlo Sforza, most bitter critic of the tarnished House of Savoy, also appeared ready to go along. At week's end the six-party junta, without enthusiasm, accepted the King's decision. This week Vittorio Emanuele accepted the resignation of Pietro Badoglio's Royalist Cabinet, ordered the Premier to form a new one with Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Actionist...
...gaudy old Galleria Umberto Primo was bright with flags: seven Russian, one American, no British and a spate of Italian with the arms of the House of Savoy removed. Three of Italy's antiroyalist parties-Communists, Socialists and Carlo Sforza's Actionists-brought out some 7,000 cheering, rain-soaked Neapolitans to boo Badoglio and the King, shout fiercely for a republic. The biggest meeting so far permitted by the Allies, it was a Neapolitan answer to Churchill's endorsement of their unwanted government.* The show ended with a ragged Partisan from Marshal Tito on stage, shouting...
...Savoy. Said Winston Churchill of Allied policy in Italy: "We are working ... to aid ... the King and Badoglio. . . . [When we] enter Rome . . we shall review the whole position . . . The various Italian [anti-Fascist] parties . . . have ... no constitutional authority. . . . When you have to hold a hot coffeepot it is better not to break off the handle until you are sure that you can get another equally convenient and serviceable, or at least that you will find a dish cloth handy...
Beer and Fear. Journalism is journalism, news is news. We went across the street to the Savoy Hotel and ordered beers...
Colds can be cured, and, if they are, no lover of the Savoy operas can afford to miss the current company...