Word: umbertos
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...leaders of Italy's anti-Fascist parties last week made a compromise. They had been confused by Anglo-U.S. dithering, chivvied by Russian pressure, adamant in demanding the abdication of little King Vittorio Emanuele III. Into this deadlock stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
...offer was made in the best tradition of royal intrigue. Through the Neapolitan night the Prince's own car whisked A. P. Correspondent Dick Massock to a royal hideaway. During a half-hour "audience" Umberto said: "The King is old [74] and ready to retire. He has had a full life." Massock was to tell the world, and did, that Umberto was ready to take over his father's duties, become the King's lieutenant. At one point Massock observed: "You talk as though you expect to be king some day." Solemnly replied Umberto: "Yes, that...
Playboy Prince. Umberto's kingly education was a gaudy business. As a playboy princeling, he had some un-engaging ways: he was known to spit on the floors of houses where he was guest, grind his heels into priceless tables, organize treasure-hunt games and insist that every prize be a princely bauble. In Rome in 1930 he married Marie-José, only daughter of Belgium's beloved King Albert. Umberto's subsequent infidelities were on a royal scale. Marie-José wept, but did not go home...
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...
...gaudy old Galleria Umberto Primo was bright with flags: seven Russian, one American, no British and a spate of Italian with the arms of the House of Savoy removed. Three of Italy's antiroyalist parties-Communists, Socialists and Carlo Sforza's Actionists-brought out some 7,000 cheering, rain-soaked Neapolitans to boo Badoglio and the King, shout fiercely for a republic. The biggest meeting so far permitted by the Allies, it was a Neapolitan answer to Churchill's endorsement of their unwanted government.* The show ended with a ragged Partisan from Marshal Tito on stage, shouting...