Evening star., 1947-12-29
Former Kings Death
Heaps New Problems
On De Casper Regime
By the Associoted Press

"--- By the Associoted Press
. ROME, Dec. 29.-A former Kings
p. death in Egyptian exile dumped an
4. other problem into the already over
laden lap of Premier Alcide de Cas-
peri today.
The problem: Should the gov
eminent OF the young Italian re-
public send condolences to the fam
lily of ex-King Victor Emmanuel
III, who died yesterday in Alexan-
dria one year and 10 months after
he abdicated the throne he had
held almost 46 years?
Political sources said some cab
tnet ministers were urging the Cath
-ohc Premier that it was the least
TIE republics fourth ministry could
90 to cable its regrets to eX-Queer
Elena.
: Yet Premier Gasperi could be
rsure that if he did the fire from the
italian left, bitterly against mon
-archism in all its forms, would be
stepped up.
: And if he did not, he could be
ssure that Italys monarchists-
ssome 100000 Italians voted to
keep the House of Savoy in the
sJune, 1916, plebiscite which installed
sthe republic-Would hold it against
him.
: May Send Individual Messages.
; A spokesman at the Premier's
office said this morning that the
new constitution made the men,
~bers of the House of Savoy private
persons" The spokesman said he
did not believe the government
would convey official regrets, al
though individual ministers might
: Premier De Gasperi himself has
-Sent no telegram, he said.
: The spokesman said he believed
-there was no possibility that Victor
Emmanuel would be buried-"at
-least, right now.:-in the 19-cen-
~tury-old Pantheon where his father
sand grandfather lie.
= The cabinet was expected to
study the dilemma today
!. Already, monarchists were charg-
ling that a provision of the new
italian constitution, promulgated
Saturday, which deprived the House
-of Savoy of its properties and
barred its two ex-Kings' return tc
Italy, had hastened the death OF
the 78-year-old Victor Emmanuel
Rome monarchists prepared for
-private memorial services January
r.. and two monarchist weeklies
""joined forces for one big joint black
~bordered memorial edition today.
Message Sent to Umberto.
- Italys two monarchist parties
sthe italian Monarchist Union and
11the National Monarchist Labor
@Union-sent the following telegram
to Victor Emmanuels son, ex-King
gUmberto II, in Lisbon:
- The monarchists, consternation-
stricken at the disappearance Of the
great soldier King, unite in the sor-
row of your majesty, the King
La Repubblica, the first Leftist
paper to appear after the eX-King S
death, assailed italian monarchists
for attempting to construct the
'''piteous fable of the poor King, dead
in exile, of heartbreak" over the re-
publics ban on his return to Italy.
1t was pure coincidence" that
Victor Emmanuel died one day after
-promulgation of the republics new
constitution, Republica insisted.
Furthermore, it said, the old
man of 78 certainly did not die OF
grief at the ruin of his country
or of remorse, or Of shame, not
even when his tremendous personal
Responsibility for the martyrdom
of his country appeared clear to
the eyes of the whole world
The leftist Independent Momento
said that if the Kings reign had
ended after 20 years. "his glory
would have been safe from any
reflection
Unfortunately, the paper added,
''by lending his support to the
fascist dictatorship and thereby as
suming irremovable coresponsibil-
tty in the catastrophe in which
Mussolinis adventure concluded, he
succeeded in undoing his own work. y
Vatican sources said Pope Plus
XII had sent a message of con-
fiolescence to ex-Queen Elena last
hight.