The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-05
ROME GROWN COUNCIL IS
 IN SESSION
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent)

u VEVVHVHv BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent) London, August 5.-UP) - The new Italian cabinet was scheduled to examine matters of an important nature" today following two ecclesiastical conferences at Vatican City Swiss sources said raised hopes within Italy of an early peace. (The Lon don radio, recorded by CBS, said that the Italian Crown Council met in Rome this morning with the German ambassador, Hans Georg Won Mackensen, presently
 The cabinet meeting was believed related to Italy's future role in the war and included in the agenda, ob- servers here theorized, was General Dwight D. Esenhowers offer of July 28 to grant the Badoglio govern ment an honorable peace" that would include the release of Italian soldiers captured in Tunisia and Sicily.
 Though Chief of Government Marshal Pietro Badoglio has as- serted in a proclamation that the war will continue" and Rome broadcasts have insisted that Italy will fight on at the side of Germany, the government has issued neither formal statement of solidarity with the Nazi regime, nor formal reply to Eisenhower's offer.
 The nearest approach to formal announcement of foreign policy was the message which radio Tokyo said the new foreign minister, Raffaele Guariglia, sent to Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu of Japan prom ising that Italy would continue the struggle alongside Germany and Japan.
 Meeting of Cardinals
 The Vatican announced that Luigi Cardinal Maglione, papal sec retary of State, had convoked an extraordinary meeting of the 16 cardinals at present in Rome to discuss the international situation" and that the Holy Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs had met early yesterday under the presidency of Maglone.
 Catholic church quarters in Swift zerland said the Holy Congregation is entrusted with the study of all matters between the Holy See and foreign powers. All such matters must first be approved by Pope Plus XII, who in turn refers them to Maglone and the congregation.
 All 13 cardinal members attended yesterdays session of the congre- gation. the Vatican said, and Mon- signor Domenico Tardini, assistant secretary of state for extraordinary affairs, also was present. The meet ing lasted an hour and half.
 Although no inkling of the matters discussed by the congregation was available, Swiss circles close to the papal secretariat hinted that the subjects first were approved at the special meeting of 16 cardinals.
 Possible Go-Between
 The Vatican long has been con- sidered a possible go-between for arranging peace between Italy and the Allies, though there has been no concrete evidence that it so far has been called upon to act in that capacity.
 A German DNB broadcast said its Vatican correspondent had learned that the mycting of cardinals yes terday was of extraordinary impor- tance" It Speculated that the con- ference discussed the Allied notes to neutral government asking them not to give asylum to Axis war crim- inals and "still more important and grave problems.
 The situation within Italy re- mained cloaked in censorship. but neutral sources in Switzerland said Rome broadcasts and other off, cial reports claiming a rapid de- cline in strikes and peace demon- strations should be treated with re- serve.
 An Italian frontier dispatch said Badoglio, despite his iron-f1sted rule, was losing control of the people and unless he presents Italy with some thing concrete before next weekend, he may be confronted with an out break of unprecedented violence.
 Reports reaching Zurich said that the situation in Milan, where some of the principal peace demonstra- tions occurred, was becoming more chaotic daily with the joy that fol- lowed the custer of Benito Mussolini giving way to despair.
 We Want Peace"
 Every day. the Zurich Dietat said, fresh inscriptions are found on walls of building stating. We want peace and work" and "The Germans must be busted from Italy"
 One feels that the string is so tight that 1t must snap at any mo- ment," the newspaper said.
 There are constantly about two and one-half million persons seri- ously ill in the United States.