ITALIAN ATTITUDE

Grey River Argus, 27 February 1943, Page 5

ITALIAN ATTITUDE

SIGNIFICANT PERMIT

(Rec. 9.50) NEW YORK, Feb. 26. The “New York Times’s” Berne correspondent says; Well informed circles assert that the Italian Government ha's notified the Vatican that Archbishop Spellman, of New York, would be permitted to. pay a “courtesy visit” to the war prisoner camps in'ltaly. . The correspondent adds: It is the first tirrfe that an enemy-, prelate other than a Nuncio has been given such permission. Italian Coup d’Etat A FRENCH WRITER'S STORY.

(Rec. 11.301 NEW YORK, Feb. 25. The French writer "Pertinax” says he learns, from reliable diplomatic sources that Marshal Badoglio approached the British Government after the Allied capture of Tripoli, offering to stage a pro-Allied coup d’etat in Italy, to be coincident with an Allied invasion project. Included in the proposal was the King’s abdication and Prince Humbert’s accession. Britain rejected the proposal because she was not prepared to guarantee Marshal Badoglio’s proposed peace settlement.