Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-27
Career Servicemen
Hold Most Of Posts
In:Badog|io Cabinet
By RICHARD G. MASSOCK,

BY RICHARD G. MASSOCk,
Former Chief Of the Associated Press Bu-
reau in Rome.
Marshal Pietro Badoglio has set
up "a military dictatorship in Italy,
free of all political control, Fascist
or otherwise
This became obvious with the an
nouncement of his new cabinet
Which supplants the Fascist politi-
clans who were swept out of office
in the resignation of Benito Musso-
lini
There is not a politician or a policy
maker in the lot. All are bureau
Gratis, career officers or civil servants
of the type who, in a democratic
country, remain on the job regard
less of the party changes in the gov
eminent.
Were Paper Workers"
Most of them are unknown to
those of us who lived in Rome be-
cause they were sitting at desks in
the various ministries, handling the
paper work
1t is obvious that they were ele-
waited to ministerial rank in the
present crisis only to keep the civil
services running while the army rules
the country and conducts the fall
tering war effort, perhaps with the
inevitable surrender in view.
Raffaele Guariglia, the new For
eign Minister, is a career diplomat
who started, additionally, in the
Italian consular Soryioo orI =
himself up to the rank of ambas-
sador by following orders. He was
Ambassador to France at the time
Mussolini declared war against that
country. Later he was Ambassador
to the Vatican, was removed there
to make room for Mussolinis SON.
in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and
was sent to Ankara
Only One Fascist.
The only holdover from the Fas-
cist regime seems to be Gen. Carlo
Favagrossa, Minister of War Pro-
duction. Badoglio retained the
Donald Nelson of Italy" But
Favagrossa, career general, prob
ably had less power under Mussolini
than the director of the War Pro-
ducticn Board has under President
Roosevelt
Bruno Fornaciari Minister of In
terror, is a project in the career
service that directs the civilian po-
lice activities of Italy. A project
corresponds to provincial governor
Domenico Bartolini, Minister of
Finance, has been the chief pur-
chasing agent in the Finance Min
istry, with a voice in the handling
Of savings bank deposits and social
insurance funds, which in Italy are
invested in war bonds.
And so on down the line. Pre-
sumably the other cabinet members
are no more nor less Fascist than
DR.. Guido Rocco the new Minister
Of Popular Culture, who will direct
propaganda. Rocca is we'll known
to every American correspondent
who served in Rome, for he was long
in the propaganda ministry. In re-
cent years he has been chief of the
foreign press section.
Voiced Mussolinis Complaints.
Rocco is hammered man,
with impeccable courtesy. He was
supposed to guide the foreign cor
respondents along the line of
Fascist rectitude in news reporting,
but the job was mainly one of pass
ing along the complaints of Musso-
lini, who, a former journalist, kept
a keen eye on the press.
Rocco, consequently. had to give
quite few Of the foreign CORE
spondents what was called a head
washing" fairly often. He usually
squirmed under the unpleasant
task, for it was alien to his nature.
1t always seemed distasteful to him
TO inform us that We had offended
the dignity of the Fascist regime.
We regarded Rocco as a man I'M
happy in the post that had been
assigned to him. He seemed still
unhappier when Mussolini imported
the anti-Semitic campaign from
Germany. Colleagues said it was
because his wife was Jewish and
Rocco's position as a civil servant
had become still more difficult.