Word: umberto
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...Small One." To Italian democrats, King Vittorio Emanuele is still a rankling symbol of the Mussolini regime. Once il piccolo (the small one) was a sentimental nickname for the king. Now it is a bitter epithet. His son, Umberto, has won the title lo stupido nazionale. Even such democratic political leaders as Benedetto Croce and Count Carlo Sforza were willing to join a new Government if the King were kicked out and a regency established for the "little prince." the seven-year-old Prince of Naples. But the King was kept...
...called The Temporary Commission for the Organization of a Permanent World League of Cooperating Sovereign Nations Dedicated to the Preservation of International Peace, Prosperity and Happiness. Churchill was furious because the name wasn't in Basic English, but he turned up just the same. So did Badoglio, Umberto, Pétain, Giraud and Franco. Seven newspaper and radio men were allowed to cover the conference-from a launch alongside the battleship...
Many died on the battlefield. Their hospital was crammed with wounded. The unhurt were brokenhearted. Long afterward their general sat, staring sadly at the hill from his observation post. Crown Prince Umberto, who had been there at the start, had already left. Later he flew over the German lines in a tiny, vulnerable U.S. observation plane. Like his pint-sized royal father, Umberto was counting on this new army to remove some of the tarnish from the House of Savoy...
...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...
...villa at Sorrento, Senator Benedetto Croce, philosopher, literary critic and anti-Fascist intellectual, told U.S. correspondents that Italy's best immediate hope would be the abdication of King Vittorio Emanuele and his son Umberto, followed by a regency under 72-year-old Marshal Pietro Badoglio for Umberto's son, the six-year-old Prince of Naples...