Word: sforza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past days of "glory" in the Italian campaign against Ethiopia, and a well-meaning sincerity. He usually speaks in Italian, although he knows French and a little English. Recently he flew to Naples to invite new strength into his Government. Particularly, he asked bearded, 70-year-old Count Carlo Sforza, who had returned to Italy after 16 years of exile, and the potbellied, stubby-haired philosopher and elder statesman, 77-year-old Benedetto Croce, to join with...
...himself and for Croce, Sforza indicated a willingness to join the Government-but only if the King were thrown out. A Regency which skipped Crown Prince Umberto and alighted on the six-year-old Prince of Naples might be acceptable, he said, pending the day when all of Italy could decide on a monarchical or republican government. But what the beaten and heartsick people of Italy needed most of all, said Sforza, was at least one dynamic and truly democratic act that would fan the flames of hope and national pride. That act, he plainly implied, was abdication...
Badoglio was turned down by Sforza, by Croce, and by Dr. Orangio Ruiz, chairman of the Fronte Nazionale di Liberazione, which includes the six patriot and "opposition" parties. The meaning seemed clear: the King must go. That was the Marshal's message when he returned to the King's villa...
Less gracious was Count Sforza's liberal Partito d'Azione (Action Party), which charged that the Pope "has always been a reactionary favoring an absolute and paternal government, even after Mussolini's fall." Said the Action Party: "By means of a Parliament and the press we must discuss with the people ways of restricting the Church's influence. This might be done by encouraging other forms of religion...
...Moral Purification. Two days later Matthews talked with Count Carlo Sforza, newly landed in Italy after 16 years of exile by Fascists, heard the white-bearded onetime (1920-21) Foreign Minister declare a need for a "moral purification [of] the whole Italian atmosphere." Said Sforza: "What is dangerous and morally intolerable is the malicious whispering carried on by Fascist-minded persons who have been kept in official positions by the Badoglio Government or by Allied authorities. . . . I am sure [Badoglio] hates and loathes Fascism. The evil comes mainly from . . . 'court circles' where everything is tried...