Evening star., 1943-08-10
Nazis Confident |taIy
Will Remain in War,
Madrid Reports Say
Ey the ASSociated Pres.

49, hit hSoOSloteh 1850
MADRID, Aug l0.-Dispatches of
Spanish correspondents in Berlin to
Madrid's morning newspapers today
mirrored expressions of German
official confidence that Italy would
continue in the war with the help
of German reinforcements and that
Premier Pietro Badoglio had aban-
doned hope of peace with the Allies.
The weight of German arms"
said the Arriba correspondent in
Berlin, has outweighed the mis-
taken will Of home quarters in
clined to cede to enemy pressure"
Although there still was no COM
munique concerning the reported
conference between German Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop
and Baron Raffaele Guariglia, for
eign minister in the Badoglio cabi-
net, Spanish correspondents reached
the same conclusion, based on what
Nazis told them and optimism"
which they reported had spread
through official Berlin.
GA Chicago Daily News dis
patch from London said it was
reported there that the Ger
mans, having written Italy off
as an active ally in the war, are
about to conclude new military
agreement with the Badoglio
government to replace the Axis
treaty signed by Hitler and Mus
!solini.
(The purpose of this treaty
would be to permit Germany to
give maximum protection to its
central European industries and
at the same time to get maxi
mum supplies from Italy.
CThis new German-Italo agree
ment would permit the bulk of
Italy to be withdrawn from the
war but would leave in German
hands the northern part of the
country, with its heavy indus
tries and rich Lombardy plains)
Nazis Move Troops In.
In the two weeks since Musso-
linis fall, according to Italian re-
ports, the Germans have quietly
and carefully moved sufficient
troops into the Po and Trieste re-
gions to seize that sector if neces-
sary.
About the time that Badoglio ap-
parently was convinced that his
choice was what the Italian press
called "dishonorable surrender" or
continuation of the war at Ger
n1any's SIDE, Won Ribbentrop had
the guns to back his words.
while Hans-Georg Viktor Won
Mackensen, German Ambassador to
Italy. had wheedled with Badoglio
and played for time by encouraging
him to hold out for better terms,
Vpn Rlbbentrop went to Rome with
stronger language, Italian reports
said.
He was represented as able to
warn Badoglio that the Italian mar
shal now could net surrender all of
Italy since the Germans had the
power to seize the north.
Won Ribbentrop argued, according
to these Italian reports, that the
Allies could offer few concessions in
exchange for occupation of only
opdGllC4l d1lu SGIltl Italy ana
that such surrender would end the
house of Savoy and Badoglio with
northern Italians.
Nazis Promise Protection.
Won Ribbentrop then painted a
roster picture of the Italian future
on the side of Germany and called
Badoglio's attention to the fact that
German reinforcements had reached
Sicily since II Duce's fall despite
transport and other difficulties.
Italian reports said Germany
promised through Won Ribbentrop
to send all troops and munitions
necessary to protect the Italian
mainland.
1t was limited also that Won Rib
bentrop gave Badogilo assurances
that the Italian military govern
rnent would treat with German
military men in the future rather
than with the Nazis as a further
guarantee of an all-out united Axis
defense policy.
The Arriba correspondent in Ber-
lin said that Badogilos military
government now undoubtedly finds
itself in a position to continue the
struggle
Another Berlin correspondent for
Arriba, in long article discussing
the eastern front, Sicily and the air
and submarine warfare, reported
that a number of submarine flotillas
had been disbanded He said sur
viving submarines of these flotillas, |
pending the development of new
tactics and improvement in the
means of attack against new sys-
TENS OF convoy protection" had re-
turned to system of travelling
alone instead of in packs.