Cheer When King, Badoglio Denounced
(Rec. 3 p.m.) LONDON, March 12. Speakers representing the Action, Socialist and Communist parties, addressing 5000 demonstrators at Naples were cheered when they denounced the King of Italy and Eadoglio. Cheers for Britain and America, which are customary at such demonstrations, were omitted, says Reuter’s Naples correspondent. References to Russia brought tumultuous applause. The leaders on the * platform included a priest giving the Communist salute, and a retired brigadiergeneral who cheered the “Italian Republic.” The demonstration, which was originally called to replace the forbidden 10-minute strike as a protest against Mr. Churchill’s statement that the present Italian administration was the best available until Rome was reached, passed a resolution declaring that the “Italians’ ardent desire was to intensify the war effort alongside the Allies against Nazism and Fascism.”
The resolution added that a call to arms would be successful only if accompanied by an effective purge of the State administration of all dynastic persons and collaborators. A Communist speaker said 150,000 partisans were fighting against Nazism and Fascism.
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Northern Advocate, 14 March 1944, Page 5
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