ITALIAN AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25499, 31 March 1944, Page 3

ITALIAN AFFAIRS

THE ALLIED , POLICIES AMERICA HAS LITTLE TO SAY NEW YORK, (Rec. 11.55 p.m.) Mar. 30. “It is understood that President Roosevelt and Mr Cordell Hull received a report from an American official recently in Italy expressing grave concern at the makeshift nature of British and American political and economic arrangements in Italy,” says the Herald-Tribune’s Washington correspondent. “Mr Hull was also informed that American officials in Italy were doing little more than window dressing. The British decide the major policies, committing the United States to a course of action without being able to bear their own policies.” Mr Stettinius, when he visits London, will attempt to dissuade Mr Churchill from caution about ousting King Emmanuel and Marshal Badoglio. The American Government would prefer King Emmanuel to be replaced by a regency for his grandson, the Prince of Naples, and to have the regency call for Marshal Badoglio’s resignation. The State Department, it is believed, is considering Prince Umberto as Badoglio’s immediate successor. “America,” continued the correspondent, “ supplied 90 per cent, of the non-war material reaching Italy between August and February, and argued that the United States Government should have pi° re sa y i' l Italian affairs, both on the Advisory Council and the Armistice Commission.”