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...withdraw his small army successfully to the fierce crags of the Dolomites, which form a better defense line than any he has held heretofore. There, on the frontier, he should be able to keep General Sir Harold Alexander from penetrating into Austria. But then Milan, Turin, Genoa, the whole Po Valley would have to be abandoned. And the war in Italy would be over...
...best they could in a confused and disorganized hour, the people of Italy declared war on the Germans. In Milan they mounted machine guns on rooftops, sniped from windows. In Turin they held out after the rest of northern Italy had fallen to the Germans. Up & down the peninsula they heeded the Allied calls to sabotage Nazi movements. Along the coast they turned on lights at night to beckon British and U.S. landing parties. But by week's end the occupying Germans seemed to hold a firm upper hand over wide areas. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel proclaimed himself master...
...Italy, as the Allied radio had warned, the breathing spell was over (TIME, Aug. 16). Now the big planes, winging through the night from England, crested the Alps, dropped their explosive and incendiary reminders on Milan and Turin. By day, up from Mediterranean shores came precision bombers to give Rome its second, searing assault...
...people were told: "The Allies have no intention whatever of giving peace to our country." The Army was told: "Your duty includes the 'disciplining of the civilian population.' " High Churchmen lent their voices to the Palace's. Said Cardinal Fossati, Archbishop of Turin: "It is a crime ... to interfere with [Marshal Badoglio's] work in any way, even by criticism...
...Swiss report had the Badoglio Government ready to demilitarize Rome, declare it an open city. But neither plaint nor plea yet budged the Al lied High Command. At week's end Allied heavy bombers resumed the attack on the restive northern cities of Genoa, Milan and Turin...