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Last week a black gentleman turned up in a captured Fascist internment camp at Ferremonte, presented himself to the U.S. Lieut. Larry Garcia, C.O., then brought in another black gentleman: His Excellency Mangesha Woube, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Italy. Ever since Italy grabbed Ethiopia in 1935, the Ambassador and his aide had been comfortably interned in a village near Cosenza. Happy and well treated, they did not want to leave, but Lieut. Garcia had orders to forward them to the Middle East...
Italy's new Premier, gentle Ivanoe Bonomi, got a rough ultimatum from London: put ex-Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio back in the Cabinet, or else. For Italy's anti-Fascist politicians, proud of their "pure-of-Fascism" Government, it was a grievous blow...
Their neat coup of June 9 had left the onetime Fascist Marshal out in the cold. But they had reckoned without the wrath of Winston Churchill. Only a fortnight earlier the British Prime Minister had patted the Badoglio Government on the back, given it his "every confidence" (TIME, June 5). Now the anti-Fascist Italians stood at a frustrated impasse. Such intervention, they said darkly, would be the last disillusionment for Italy's democrats, would kindle antagonism against the Anglo-American liberators...
Sitting pretty in the Italian confusion was the Communist Party, led by shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian...
Last week a mob of anti-Fascist Italians sacked the Roman villa of Beniamino Gigli, famed tenor, who in 1932 quit the Metropolitan and returned to Italy in a huff after refusing to accept a depression pay-cut. Tenor Gigli was accused of friendliness with Nazi officials in Italy...