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PRIME OBJECTIVE
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tives from each of these parties
without exception he pledges him
self to include in his government,
but their leading figures are now
so scattered and in hiding that a
sound selection of them he regards
as impossible until Rome is re-
gained and they can enter public
life again.
CD When such constitutional gov
eminent is created, the marshal
says his duty will be complete and
he will Immediately surrender Of
flee.
80 Italy's internal reforms, in
GLIDING the decision as to the form
of the future government, must
largely await action by this con-
stitutional authority which itself
cannot come into being until Italy
as whole is able to express its
wishes.
However, certain reforms call
ing for immediate action Badoglio
himself initiated, he points out,
when he entered office. These in
Guided his destruction of the entire
Fascist political machine all the
way from the grand council and
grating corporation setups to par
ticularly obnoxious Gioventu 1tal-
lana de Littorio-or the so called
Littorio youth movement for boys
six to eighteen.
az Punishment Of individual Fa-
scists not yet determined. Dlstlnc-
ton must be made between, on
one hand real Fascist leaders and
their triggermen, who implication
must be punished, and on the other
had those so-called Fascists of en-
tirely different categories-nota-
bly, minor government officials,
clerks and most professional men.
The have had choice between pro-
Tossing lip loyalty to Fascism and
starving. One gathers these will be
forgiven their merely perfunctory
acceptance of Fascism and partly
because a good many of them al
most are necessary to the orderly
restoration of the nation.
60 Mussolini himself had origin
ally opposed entry into the war
and changed his mind only when
he thought German victory assur-
ed. He painted for an important
place at the peace table as belli-
gerent and needed some thous-
ands of dead 1ealians" to buy that
peace.
(6) 1t was Mussolini himself who
fastened Italy's ruin by sending
the bulk of his divisions to Russia
and the Balkans as a sacrlflce to
Hitler, instead of keeping them at
home for needed part IN the Med
iterranean theatre.
The interview took place In a
small unimpressive corner room
which Marshal Badoglio uses as an
office with no concern over its
lack of imposing dimensions or
furniture.
His own desk is purely unitarian
almost to the point of ugllness. The
room itself is on the second floor
of a twelfth century castle. The
turreted old stone structure is en-
tered by passing a gate through
the thick outer wall, then crossing
moat via draWbridge, all OF
which affords startling contrast
with automobiles and costumes OF
visitors from country and CONT
net whose existence was not even
dreamed of until centuries after
this castle was built.
There is little ceremony over en-
trance. the truth being that at the
r,on,nt neither the King nor the
premier has facilities for cere-
monv or even the trained men
needed for establishment of most
of their governmental departments
This in other words, is a most
modest beginning for new gov
eminent whose expansion can
come only when the Allied cam
naign north of Volturno has freed
far more of Italy and hence made
available far more men with gifts
for statecraft and administration.
Marshal Badogno himself had
fixed the time for the interview
and we were admitted immediate
1v The marshal came to the door
~ his little office and shook hands
cordially with his three visitors and
their military companions. Then he
waved us and the interpreter to
seats about his desk where he
himself sat down and looked at US
henienly through round spectacles.
He is a sturdy man of medium
beight with good soldierly carriage
desnite his 70 years. His round
head head is almost bald, his features
dignified, homely' intelligent and
friendly. as are his considerable