Evening star., 1944-02-11
Allied Army Regime
Conditiona||y Gives
Powers 10 Bagdo|io
By the Associated Press.

NAPLES, Feb. 1l.-Allied military
authorities have relinquished theil
administrative control over South.
ern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia anc
vested the Badoglio government
with conditional civil authority.
Announcing the transfer, one OF
the first major moves toward restor.
ing liberated italian territory to q
peacetime footing, Gen. Sir Henry
Maitland Wilson, Allied commander
in chief in the Mediterranean, said
last night that two restrictions had
been imposed:
That Italian administration should
be carried on by officials Of proven
good faith and Allied sympathies
and that the transfer involves nc
Allied commitments to the govern
ment of Premier Pietro Badoglio
and King Victor Emmanuel after
the fall of Rome.
BY the latter condition, the Allies
took note of Badoglios pledge to
surrender his powers to another gov
ernment If Italians so desire when
Vic CdplIdl Is lIeeQ.
Strategic Islands Excepted.
The transfer gave the Italian gov
eminent administrative power over
mainland territory south from the
northern borders of Salerno, Potenza
and Bari provinces, and over the
islands of Sicily and Sardinia-an
area OF approximately 10000 square
miles with a population estimated
up to 10,500,000. Badoglio previously
had exercised control only over Sar-
dinia and four provinces IN the
heel" of the Italian Peninsula.
Gen. Wilson's statement Specifi-
cally excepted the strategic Medi-
terranean islands of Pantelleria,
Lampedusa and Linosa.
In the territory turned over to the
italians, Allied Military Government
representatives will remain on duty
to provide advice and guidance.
1t. Gen. Frank N. Mason Mac
farlane, deputy president of the AL
lied Control Commission, announced
his group had taken over direction
Of the Allied Military Government.
Fusion of ACC and AMG, he said,
had three-fold object:
l. To insure the smooth running
Of everything connected with the
italian armistice terms.
Maximum Assistance.
!. To help the Italians give the
maximum possible assistance to the
Allied war effort.
8. To take off the shoulders of the
Allied military leaders the problems
of controlling liberated territory 50
they could concentrate on military
operations.
The ACC has been carrying out
provisions of the Italian armistice
The AMG, as it's name implies, func-
tions as the administrative body i'm
mediately after the military frees
territory.
Under the consolidation, number
OF new key officials have been added.
Henry F. Grady, former Assistant
Secretary of State in Washington,
has been named to head the ACC
economic section and Samuel Reber,
United States diplomatic representa-
tive who assisted Robert Murphy,
American Minister to French North
Africa, becomes chief of the ACC
political section.
Anti-Semitic Curbs Lifted.
All anti-Semitic and other racial
restrictions imposed by the Fascist
regime in italy were abrogated
throughout liberated Italian terri
tory by royal decree yesterday.
Gen. Macfarlane said in state
ment that full civil and political
rights were to be restored to Jews
In accordance with United Nations
policies against intolerance.
The decree, issued by King Victor
and the Badoglio government, will
be enforced throughout italian ter
ritory under Allied control.
1t annuled or repealed more than
q dozen anti-Semitic laws and regu-
lations imposed by the Mussolini
government. Not more than 1000
are affected IL is estiYn ated