The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-06
Marshal BadoglioH Has
 Resigned Position
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reported that Badoglio had gone to Albania to supersede Gen. Ubaldo Soddu, under-secretary of war in charge of the Greek campaign, and try to prevent an Italian disaster there. Italian officials denied it.
 Badoglio held the same position in the Italian army that Gen. Will helm Keitel holds in the German army and Mlssolini took him along on one of his recent trips to confer with Adolf Hitler, so that he could talk with Keitel, who accompanied Hitler.
 Often called "Italy's greatest hv- ing soldier" Badoglio was an ardent nationalist, but was closer to the monarch than to Mussolini's Fascist regime, which, at it's inception, he offered to destroy. MusSolini's Black shirts then were marching on Rome and Badoglio told the king that if he would let him use one battalion of Royal Carabarini, he would drive those Fascist upstartS into the sea-"
 Badoglio is 6o; tall, gray and usu- ally soft-spoken. He distinguished himself in the Turk campaign in 1910; helped reorganize the Italian army after its disastrous defeat at Caporetto in the World war and be- came commander-in-chief a few weeks before the armistice. He took up the sword for Mussolini in the Ethiopian campaign, became known as the "conqueror of Ethiopia" and was appointed viceroy of that coun- try only to be called back to Rome to organize the army for conquest of Albania and the general European war to follow.
 Not Unexpected
 A shake-up in the Italian conn., mand was not unexpected. Belabored by the British Mediterranean fleet, blockaded at Gibraltar, stalled in the Egyptian desert and undergoing one defeat after another in Albania, Italy's armed forces evidently were due for some stern handling.
 In the "blitzkrieg" on the Albanian front, designed to add another na- tion-Greece-to the Axis powers spells of war the Italians not only failed but had lost considerable strip of their earlier conquest Al- bania-to a British ally. This Creek conquered Albanian country became the first wrested back from the dic- tatorS and the effect of this on Axis prestige has become the talk of every neutral capital in the world.
 Additionally, without getting in any serious retaliatory blows except in the African outposts and by par- ticipating a few times in German air raids on Britain, the Italians were being hit hard and frequently by British air raids on industries and ports.
 Badoglio had attempted to retire several times, once after the Ethio- plan campaign, but with every crisis Mussolini had called him back.
 Visited United States
 In 1921 he visited the United States and was cheered by several thou sand Italian-Americans on his land- ing in New York.
 Cavallero's career between wars has included a term in the Senate and the presidency of the Ansaldo company. He commanded troops in East Africa immediately after the Ethiopian campaign. He is 60.
 Cavallero also served as head of the Cogne Steelworkers, largest in Italy, which supplies most of the weapons for the army. He is consid- cred an industrial production expert as well as a military strategist.
 Old Friend of Germany
 Berlin, Dec. 6.-(UP)-Nazi infor- mants said today that Marshal Pietro Badoglio, chief of the Italian general staff, apparently had re- signed of his own accord and apart from that there is nothing to say except that he is man who played an extremely big role in the reorgan- ization of the modern Italian army"
 NaZis said the appointment of Gen. Ugo Cavallero to succeed Badoglio was welcomed here because "he is an old friend of Germany and is well known here"
 Cavallero was said to have played an important part in the organiza- ton of German-Italian staff cooper ation, and to have worked for a long time in close contact with the German-Italian economic and mill tary committee.