Word: vittorio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vittorio Emanuele kept his promise. The day after the Allies entered Rome, the Little King turned over his powers (but not his title) to his son, 36-year-old Crown Prince Umberto. At least until the U.S. and Britain keep their promise, give Italians a chance to choose their own government, the Crown Prince will rule as Lieutenant of the Realm...
Premier Badoglio and Vittorio Emanuele III have done well for the Allies. "I have every confidence in this Italian government. ... It will require further strengthening and broadening. . . . But, at any rate, it is facing its responsibilities manfully and is doing all in its power to aid the Allies." After the battles in Italy are won, the Italians will choose "whatever form of democratic government, whether monarchial or republican, they desire." Added the Prime Minister of a democratic monarchy: "I emphasize the word 'democratic' because it is quite clear that we shall not allow any form of Fascism...
This vignette of violence had a moral: it happened in a town where a Fascist still held office. Here, as in most of the liberated land turned over to King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio, things were not going well. As U.S. officers had testified (TIME, April 24), Allied prestige had fallen...
...Italian for the natives) : the Crusader, Tripoli Times, Syracuse News. In these and the Eighth's News he jumped from the military into the political field. He roasted the U.S. for not imprisoning more Fascists in Italy, criticized the unchecked Italian profiteering, the kid-glove treatment of King Vittorio Emanuele. Last October Charlton's News attacked Mihailovich's conduct in Yugoslavia. Again Parliament seethed, later came around to switching sympathies (and supplies) to Communist Mar shal Tito...
...Philosopher Benedetto Croce then expressed willingness to serve in a coalition government. Count Carlo Sforza, most bitter critic of the tarnished House of Savoy, also appeared ready to go along. At week's end the six-party junta, without enthusiasm, accepted the King's decision. This week Vittorio Emanuele accepted the resignation of Pietro Badoglio's Royalist Cabinet, ordered the Premier to form a new one with Communist, Socialist, Liberal, Actionist, Christian Democrat and Labor Democrat representatives...