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which all bets would be regarded

hurriedly at 10 Downing Street with
most members being reused from
their beds. Prime Minister Church.
Ill presided.
While 1t Is true that cabinet ses-
sions may be summoned almost at
any time, the fact that members
had to be reused by telephone OBJ
viously implied that matters had
arisen which required the most ur-
gent consultation.
The length Of the meeting also
Indicated that some discussion and
elaboration we're necessary. If the
Italians actually have approached
the Allies, at least several exchanges
through third parties would be re-
quired before direct contact could
be established between Rome and
Algiers.
Other possibilities were that the
cabinet discussed some military
question of an urgent nature involv-
ing Germany or communications
from belligerents other than Italy,
such as Hungary, Rumania or Bull
garia, but general belief was that
the satellites would wait for Italy
to take the lead in getting out Of
the war.
The situation in northern Italy
continued tense. Crowds at Milan
continued sporadic fighting despite
strong army patrols in the streets,
according to Swiss dispatches, but
some reports said that elsewere the
situation appeared to be improving
slowly. There also was consider
able difference of opinion as to
whether the demonstrations were
peace demands or were directed
against King Victor Emmanuel and
Badoglio.
Bank to Democracy
Raffaele Guariglia, the New Ital-
ian foreign minister, arrived in
Rome from Turkey and was quoted
as saying that the present tendency
was toward democratic government.
This theme also was emphasized by
a dispatch published in Zurich say
ing that Italy is returning to dem
ocratic and parliamentary rule"
1.-THE vigorous fashion in which
Badoglio is purging official and
semi-official enterprises can only be
limited at now" the Swiss CORE
spondent claimed.
A German news agency report
said that all but two members of
the Fascist grand council we're
among the thousands arrested in
Italy. 1t also was reported that Gen
eral Canale, military governor of
Milan, had been ousted and replaced
by Gen. Vittorio Ruggiero.
Meantime, Radio Moscow was
heard broadcasting that German
Reichsmarshal Hermann w. Goer-
ing arrived secretly in Rome, pos
sibly to demand a showdown on
Italy's continued presence in the
war on the side of the Axis.
Silent on Peace
Though Radio Rome was silent on
Eisenhower peace offer, it Charac-
teried President Roosevelt and
ChuSchill's earlier demands for I'M
conditional surrender as too
harsh"
An Italian frontier dispatch to
the London Daily Mail, however,
said that King Victor Emmanuel
and the new italian government had
Welded to "maSSed clamor for
peace at any price" to the extent of
announcing that they were aiming
for peace, but only peace that
would permit Italy to be neutral and
unoocupied.
Allied sources were optimistic that
italy would capitulate and Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden told Com
mons that he expected "a definite
situation requiring the government
to consult parliament will develop
IN respect to Italy" during the sum-
mer recess, which begins early next
month.
An Italo-S Swiss border dispatch
reported rumors circulating in Rome
that Marshal Pietro Badoglio, new
italian chief of government, was
giving serious consideration to Els
enhower's offer.
Serious riots continued in the
northern industrial city of Milan
and on the Istrian peninsula, OPP
posite northern Jugoslavia, but there
we're no further reports of German
ard Italian troop movements in the
northern area.
Doubt Madrid Reports
Informed sources here were in
clined to doubt Madrid reports that
two Italian army corps had been
dispatched to oppose the entrance of
further German troops through the
Bremen Pass.
Doubt also was cast on reports
that the Germans were reinforcing
their garrisons in northern Italy,
though it was considered likely that
NaN forces have been massed along
the frontier ready to move should
Badoglio suddenly side with the AL
lies.
An Italian frontier dispatch said
thousands of Socialists and Com
munists paraded through the streets
of Milan yesterday, chanting the in
ternational and waving Red flags,
despite the military governors warn
ing that such demonstrations were
prohibited and would be put down
with arms if necessary.
The crowds first went to the La
Scala Opera House, where they
cried, "Where's Toscanini? We want
him back"
Toscanini. now in exile in the
United States, left Italy after Fas-
cists slapped him for refusing to
conduct the Fascist hymn Clown
ezza in Bologna.
Parade to DomO Square
From La Scala, the parade went
70 Duomo Square. There orators
mounted the statues of Italians
kings and harangued their follow
ers.
Steel-helmeted infantrymen in
full war regalia and with fixed
bayonets arrived soon afterward and
demanded that the crowd disperse,
only to be jeered. Nonplused, Gen
eral Canale, the military governor,
telephoned Badoglio in Rome, en-
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