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Already aging Dr. Josip Smodlaka, Tito's Foreign Minister, had exchanged sharp words with Italy's Count Carlo Sforza over Yugoslav claims to Trieste, Istria, Gorizia, awarded to Italy after World War I (TIME...
There were other barbs. Rome asked Washington whether the Italian Embassy was available for its new occupant, probably Count Carlo Sforza. Washington replied: of course. Rome asked London whether the Italian Embassy was available for tall, handsome, superbly tailored Count Niccolo Carandini. London answered : Count Carandini could live at the Claridge. (Anti-Italian feeling was still strong among Britons. Count Carandini had best not make himself too conspicuous.) Italians sighed. With characteristic patience they looked at the new electric light in the Palazzo Chigi, murmured: "Eh, well, wait...
Survivors from the old Cabinet included independent Count Carlo Sforza, elder Philosopher Statesman Benedetto Croce and aggressive young Communist Palermo Togliatti, who was known as "Ercole" (Hercules) when he worked with the defunct Communist International in Moscow. Said Bonomi of his Cabinet: "No one, absolutely no one, with any Fascist connections at all is in it; only men pure of Fascism...
...were the Communists. Pronounced their little, bespectacled leader, Palmiro 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...
What Says the King? When Marshal Pietro Badoglio heard of Umberto's interview he denied that it had occurred: Umberto's move threatened to precipitate a shakeup which the old Marshal has tried to avoid. Anti-Fascists, including outspoken Democrat Count Carlo Sforza and compromising Communist Palmiro Togliatti soon justified Badoglio's concern. They and other members of a six-party executive junta met at the Sorrento villa of Philosopher Benedetto Croce. They had been more inclined toward a regency around Umberto's six-year-old son, the Prince of Naples. Now they embraced Umberto...