Responding to intensifying political pressure in Rome and the arrival of American and British forces in Sicily, on 25 July 1943 the king finally ordered the arrest of Mussolini. At around the same time Oliviero Zuccarini resurfaced, with Giovanni Conti still at his side. With the monarchy discredited by its association with fascism, and fascism discredited through involvement in the disastrous German war, the time seemed ripe for a republican revival. Although individual Republican Party members participated in the National Liberation Committee (CLN), there was no appetite on the part of the emerging party leadership for the entire party to become incorporated inside a political grouping tainted by monarchist associations. During 1943/44, as the Italian Republican Party re-formed, and exiled members began to return from England and America, Conti and Zuccarini emerged as members of the informal party leadership team. Publication of "La Voce Repubblicana" resumed. Through 1944 Zuccarini was prominent with his criticism of the CLN's excessively compliant attitude towards the monarchy. He also opposed the merger into the CLN of the Action Party. He was, in addition, one of those who successfully argued that the constitutional question - of whether they time had come for Italy to become a republic - should be pushed to the top of the party agenda.