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...Fascist Party will be dissolved. No negotiations will be carried on with "active" Fascists...
...citizens of Rome: You have already been warned that military objectives in the vicinity of Rome are liable to be bombed by the Allied air force. When this occurs the Fascist Government . . . will pretend that we are trying to destroy those cultural monuments which are the glory not only of Rome but the civilized world. It is possible, moreover . . . that the Fascist Government or their German associates will themselves arrange that bombs will be dropped on the center of Rome or even on Vatican City...
Bombs Away. At 11:13 a.m. the first bomb bay opened. Chief target was the immense railroad marshaling yard about four miles from St. Peter's, two miles from the Forum, one and a half miles from the Fascist Government offices. The Allied communique understated: "The marshaling yard ... is of greatest importance to the Axis war effort, and in particular for the movement of German troops." The smashing of Rome's central rail terminal would mean the smashing of Italy's main north-south communications, would go a long way toward paralyzing reinforcement of southern Italy...
...Conquerors. Beside a captured airfield were two patches of tomatoes; the Italian owner proffered a bushel to the sweating engineers and airmen. Almost all the Italians encountered near this field waved to the British and Americans, called "Good morning" in English. Some of the men saluted-not the Fascist salute, palm out, but the old-style salute, edge of hand against the forehead. But in some towns the old, wrinkled women in the doorways and the men and the young girls were sullen. Their towns had been bombed before the ground forces arrived...
...first put into practice, the. prohibitions against Fascist Party members had certain qualifications. Many municipal authorities, all of whom had to be at least nominal members of the Fascist Party, had promptly resigned from the Party when the invasion began. An AMGOT officer privately explained that many of these officials would keep their jobs. AMGOT had to have stable contacts with the local populations, he explained. In many towns Catholic priests dealt with AMGOT, in effect served as local officials. The treatment and recognition, if any, accorded to known antiFascists was not reported in last week's dispatches...