Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-30
Italian Troops Mutiny
When Told 10 Shoot
Rioters, Bern Hears
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Dy SOunQlng IaLSe air raid alarms II
drive the people to shelters whenever
the situation grew gravest.
The controlled Italian press re.
ferred to dissident elements as lex.
tremists and Communists A Swiss
Telegraphic Agency dispatch from
the frontier stated that the major.
ity of the Italian people "ardently
desire rebirth of the country on 6
democratic basis"
Meanwhile, despite sharp meas
ures taken by Premier Pietro Badog-
lilo to prevent its dissemination, Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower's peace offer
kept talk of an armistice alive to-
day in an Italy fretting under new
restrictions reminicent of the old
Fascist regime.
definite stiffening of govern
mental discipline was described in
reports reaching Bern. While peace
and liberty of political thought con-
tinued to be the main detectives of
demonstrations throughout Italy,
Marshal Badoglio's army-enforced
DEGREES sharply limiting freedom of
expression by newspapers aroused
bitterness among liberal and leftist
political leaders.
Many described the new censor
ship measures as smacking of those
which Benito Mussolini and his
ousted Fascist regime had imposed
during the last 20 years.
r.-:>s
Badoglio, however, did not succeed
in keeping the Eisenhower speech
from the public Thousands listened
to it on the radio and mimeographed
copies appeared on the streets of
the principal cities few hours
after its publication was banned in
the newspapers.
Travellers from Rome, Milan
Genoa and other centers said the
peace speech was the sole topic of
conversation in homes, street and
cafes
Gen. Eisenhower's broadcast came
while Italians paraded in Milan and
other cities carrying banners in
scribed with the slogans, I'VE Want
Peace" and we Want Our Sons
Back These parades we're staged
in defiance of military warnings
that troops had been ordered to fire
on demonstrators.
The Italian populace, reports re-
eeived in Bern said, are becoming
increasingly worried over the failure
of Marshal Badgolio to ask the
Allies for an armistice and this feel
Ing was by no means allayed by his
refusal to allow publication Of Gen.
EiSenhower's broadcast ard his ap-
parent hesitation in answering it,
Tense and Uneasy.
There was no doubt that the first
concrete terms offered by the Allies
through Gen. Eisenhower we're COM
manding the attention of the Badog-
lilo regime, yet the fact government
officials have insisted that relations
with the Germans would be carried
on as before and that the war would
be continued increased the feeling
of Illustration and uneasiness.
Italian political leaders. reports
bdl0, NClC w uouUb lllt
wisdom of using the army as a police
force, even though many high-rark-
Ing Fascist leaders also have been
taken into custody under Badoglio S
order that all political activity must
be halted.
In one of the few newspaper dis
patches that have been allowed to
nf
censorship regulations, the Swiss
Telegraphic Agency today quoted
government circles as saying the
Roosevelt Churchill speeches had
not modified the Casablanca formula
Of unconditional surrender which
Italy could never accept without
renouncing the most elemental sense
of dignity"
Say Terms Too Hard.
The Rome radio carried on
this argument in broadcast ap-
parently directed at the Allies.
The broadcast said the Allied
peace terms were too drastic, and
complained that Great Britain
was asking for a "Carthaginian
peace"-a peace that would COM
pletely wipe out the defeated.
t"Britain. the broadcast
added, 90 wants to detroy
Italy as vital, progressive and
history making nation The
broadcast was recorded by the
Associated Press.
Berlin and Toxic joined in
the argument that the Allies
we're not fighting Fascism alone
but we're fighting the entire
Italian nation. Italy, they said,
in broadcasts recorded by the
Associated Press, is fighting
Communism as we'll as a war for
their freedom under their King
Emperor
Meanwhile. strikes continued in a
number of important northern fac
tories and there was sporadic fight
ing in sectors north of Rome Ger
man troops moved into Fiume and
Trieste in considerable numbers to
maintain order and suppress in
cipient demonstrations for an in
dependent Slav state. italian forces
In these sections we're decreased as
additional Nazi troops moved SOUTH
ward from Bologna, travellers ar
irving here from Rome reported.
Pages Were Mutilated.
The Corriere Della Sera of Milan,
copies of which we're received here
bore mute testimony to the new
Badoglio censorship. It's pages mu-
tilated by military censors. it de-
clared editorially:
The limpid truths of the frs
few hours following the collapse O.
dictatorship has been succeeded by
an atmosphere of perplexity ane
uncertainty, causing feeling tina
the evolution has not yet reached
Its last stage"
Rome radio. broadcasting
Stefani News Agency dispatch
which was recorded by the Asso-
ciated Press, said the Badoglio
government yesterday promised
new elections after the war and
had relieved bachelors of Musso-
1iy,i i,,eNireI reefr;ot;a,e u,1,ich