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After the first attempts at general revolt have been quashed, and the British and Americans have got hold of all key positions of communications and public services, it will be easy to maintain order. King Vittorio Emanuele will then probably abdicate in favor of his son, who will restore Italy's pre-Fascist constitution. He will also invite the President of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations to act as the Premier. This is Dino Grandi, former Fascist Ambassador to London, who is rumored to have engineered Mussolini's downfall. "After [Archbishop] Spellman's visit...
From the meeting Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and General Keitel reportedly hurried to Verona to talk with Italy's new Foreign Minister, Raffaele Guariglia. The Chief of the Italian General Staff, General Vittorio Ambrosio, joined them, "on the germans' invitation," in "important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line...
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, who today is one of the world's most hardheaded statesmen, was born in 1876 -five years after Bismarck founded the Second Reich; six years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuele II's seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX immured himself in his last possession as "the prisoner of the Vatican"; five years after the Paris proletariat bloodily introduced Europe to a new form of the state-the commune or soviet. The consequences of these events were to mark the highlights of the career of Eugenio Pacelli...
Evidence of the delicacy of the situation came in the President's prompt public repudiation of an OWI overseas broadcast which had categorized King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio as Fascists . The general tone the U.S. Government will maintain was rung in the Fireside Chat: "Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan-'unconditional surrender.' We will have no truck with Fascism in any way, in any shape or manner.. We will permit no vestige of Fascism to remain...
...columns of Popolo d'ltalia, "my most cherished child"; the day in Milan when he needlessly barricaded his newspaper shop while his comrades elsewhere marched on Rome and waited until he arrived by railroad sleeper; the following day when, in black shirt and hip pistol, he stood before Vittorio Emanuele and said: "I have just come from a bloodless battle that had to be fought. I bring back to your Majesty the Italy of Vittorio Veneto, consecrated by a new victory...