The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-06
RooseveItond Churchill
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Axis nations likely to desert the sinking ship.
 While both the president and Churchill would like Premier Josef Stalin to sit in with them, it was be- lieved unlikely that the Soviet chief tain would be able to leave Russia, where he is directing growing Soviet offenSives on the eastern front. The London Daily Mail reported in New York dispatch that the swift succession of Allied victories in Sicily and Russia has created new opportunities, and that MT. Roosevelt and Churchill may con- fer again to put finishing touches to plans for new assaults on the European fortress"
 Other newspapers carried similar reports from New York and Wash ington. Radio Brazzaville was quoted a meeting was expected in the "im- mediate future"
 Italy Invasion Soon
 British military observers believed Gen. Dwight D. EisenhoWer's Medi- terranean forces will follow up their conquest of Sicily quickly with an invasion of the Italian mainland de- signed to hasten Italy's elimination.
 Hope virtually has been aban- doned here that Marshal Pietro Badoglio. the new Italian chief of government, will accept EisenhoW- CTS offer of an immediate and honorable" peace before an inva- sion.
 Badoglio's cabinet met for three and a half hours yesterday, but de- spite continuing peace demonstra- tions throughout Italy acted only on domestic matters concerned mainly with tightening the Italian war effort.
 Berlin broadcasts asserted the new government had taken definite turn toward the Axis. but a Zurich dispatch asserted that all German civilians had been ordered home from Italy. Special trains will start running tomorrow, the dispatch said.
 If the cabinet discussed EisenhoW- CTS peace offer, Rome radio made no mention of it.
 Measures Adopted
 Principal measures adopted by the cabinet, according to Italian broad casts, included the licensing of newspapers and other publications with threat of confiscation if they used material contrary to the na- tional interest, entrusting the pool ing of cereals and other essential food products to provincial military councils with army military tribu- nals punishing "evasions and infrac- tions," and suppression of unneces- sary or dispensable expenditures.
 Despite Badoglio's apparent de- termination to continue the war, the Italian people still hoped the Vatican might bring them an early peace, an Italian frontier dispatch said. The Catholic newspaper Milan Italia commented editorially that 1t was evident that the Holy See can- not remain indifferent before the possibility of solution of the inter- national situation"
 A Daily Mail dispatch quoted a traveller who had just left Italy as suggesting that the Badoglio gov- ernment is only temporary. He said the Italian people wanted peace without delay"
 Some London observers believed the Allies now were committed to bringing all necessary military pres sure to bear against Italy to blast Badoglio from power in favor of a government prepared to surrender internationally.
 The present Allied aerial offensive against Naples and railway and air. field targets in southern Italy actu- ally may be the preliminary soften- ing up phase for an invasion of the mainland. they believed. A thrust cross two-mile-wide Mes- sina Strait to the toe of the Italian boot would be a relatively simple operation, since the Italians are known to have only few divisions stationed south of Naples, but some informants saw a possibility of a much larger-scale offensive designed to split Italy in two.
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