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When CABmen got to Lisbon, Rod Sullivan tried to help them solve the mystery of the crash. But he could not understand what had happened. The plane, he said, had suddenly gone into a steep dive. He had pulled the throttles, turned to make an emergency landing. He agreed that a better remedy would have been to increase power to pull the plane out of its unusual attitude. He could not say why he had not done...
Parleys, Part I. The Badoglio regime made a first cautious approach for terms at the beginning of August, shortly after Benito Mussolini's downfall. In Lisbon five Italian envoys gave Allied representatives this message: Italy was "desperate"; the time had come to discuss "possible" armistice conditions. The Allied answer: "unconditional surrender...
...rested, while Italy stewed. There were reports of comings & goings between the Quirinal and the Vatican, where the U.S. had Harold Tittmann, a foreign service veteran, and Britain had Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Leeds. Papal Envoy Enrico Galeazzi showed up in Lisbon, said he was bound for the U.S. to buy supplies for the Vatican. Financier Giovanni Fummi registered at London's Claridge's; presumably he was executing a mission for the Vatican...
Parleys, Part II. In mid-August an Italian officer, presumably General Castellano, aide to Marshal Badoglio, dropped in at Madrid, ostensibly on a mission that had nothing to do with surrender. Secretly he called on British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare. Next day the Italian officer appeared in Lisbon, called on British Ambassador Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell...
London and Washington accepted this as a "serious proposal." Moscow was kept posted. A few days later the Allied armistice terms reached Lisbon. In the British Embassy, with U.S. Charge d'Affaires George Kennan present, the terms were given to General Castellano. Not long afterward several high officers flew up from North Africa, talked long and earnestly to Marshal Badoglio's colleague at a dinner that coursed through a whole night and into the dawn...