The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18

ernment Italy has at the moment. The country has unquestionably gone through tremendous blood less revolution. This is an effort to reconstruct and summarize its pro- gress to date:
 There are still plenty of gaps in the story. Going back to the begin- ming, Mussolini called the Grand Council together on Saturday, July 24, to make his report of his con- ference with Hitler. After making the report, however, it appears that Mussolini took no part in fur 1 ther debate, which went on over his head between two factions. That led by Count Dino Grandi prevailed and called for the resignation of Mussolini
 KING SUMMONED IL LUCE
 Whether M Il lini stayed throughout this session is not clear. It is known, however, that Musso- lini did not go to the king to offer his resignation as he had been or dered to do by the Grand Coun- Gil. Instead, he went to distribute prizes at a harvest festival.
 Next day, Grandi went to the king to inform him of the Grand Councils action. When the king learned what had happened, he summoned Mussolini. The duce tried | to dismiss the action of the council as having no meaning and being of no importance. The king demanded his resignation anyway, and Musso- lini left the palace accompanied by the army. The story persists, and is confirmed by the Italian press, that Mussolini was taken away in an ambulance.
 What happened next will prob ably go down as fuke in history. The Grand Council having voted only to remove Mussolini, but the king, seizing this opportunity, used his power all the way and abolished the Grand Council which, much to it's surprise, found that it had con- mitted suicide, which it never in- tended to do. The Grand Council had previously had the power to name the successor to the throne By abolishing the Grand Council, the king got back the power to name his own successor, a develop ment to be watched with interest. JEWS REGAIN CITIZENSHIP
 The Fascist OVRA. or secret po- lice, has been dissolved. The Fascist black shirt militia has been incorp- , orated into the Italian army and all party secretaries in every town have had to report for military service. The army is policing the country. All anti-Semitic laws have been repealed. These laws had been obviously promulgated at German insistence. They were never popular because Italy had only some 10000 Jews, who now have their citizen ship restored. Three Fascist news papers were suspended. In others, Fascist editors were removed and replaced by former editors.
 There is no evidence that the German liaison officers, who sat in every Italian government office of importance and practically ran the country, have been kicked out Badoglio may not be dominted by Germany, but he is certainly dominated by fear of Germany, and as long as the German army is in Italy and the American, British and Canadian armies are in Sicily, 1t doesn't take much savvy for any, one to figure out what he would do if in Badoglio's shoes at this mo- ment.
 Italy's best troops-perhaps 30 divisions-are overseas. There is no indication that the Germans will let them go home. Just before Musso- ! lini was bounced, all men of from 21 to 36 were called up for military service. That would indicate Italy may be hard up for domestic troops.