Word: savoyism
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...induced to make a speech anywhere. But he will make one this week at a London luncheon which will be attended by an assortment of bigwigs - Cabinet members, Members of Parliament, businessmen, foreign ambassadors. Later the same day there will be a frilly "sherry party" at the Savoy Hotel. The occasion for all this decorous festivity: the 100th birthday of the London Economist, a sedately liberal, authoritative British weekly which ranks with such respected and influential British newspapers as the London Times and Manchester Guardian...
...Badoglio's replacement of Mussolini is not an improvisation to meet a suddenly developed crisis; it is the first stage in a long-prepared plan aiming at securing Italy an 'honorable' peace with the United Nations. The Italian participants are the Royal House of Savoy, the Vatican (as mediator), and the 'Peace Party.' The Peace Party consists simply of Italy's traditional ruling classes, and their basic aim is to preserve their power. They had no essential quarrel with Fascism so long as it was successful. But when it became obvious that the Axis...
...considerations seemed apparent: 1) a peace negotiated with the House of Savoy and the Badoglio Government; 2) economic assistance from the Allies; 3) Allied support in suppressing any revolutionary outbreaks; 4) neutrality for Italy and safe evacuation for the German forces...
...Said General Eisenhower, in a broadcast which must have had Washington's approval, if not London's: "We commend the Italian people and the House of Savoy for ridding themselves of Mussolini." To the Italians he offered "mild and beneficent" occupation, return of war prisoners, restoration of "ancient traditions and liberties...
...many an anti-Fascist Italian and many an Allied citizen, with North Africa in mind, it looked as though a deal with the House of Savoy might be in the making. But one thing was certain by this week: Marshal Badoglio and his faction in the Quirinal were not moving quickly enough...