ITALIAN GENERALS
Power Taken From Mussolini
Officers of high rank in the Italian Army arc no longer chosen by Mussolini. This prerogative, which he had wrested from King Victor, he has now had to relinquish to Hitler. As Minister of War he still signs the decrees which give legal sanction to the appointments. but the appointments are decided in Berlin. In a decree just issued Mussolini has reserved for himself the right of promoting, or discharging generals who hold Ministerial posts or are members of the Fascist Grand Council. But so far as the appointment of
“other generals” is concerned, including those with regional jurisdiction. ; Mussolini is not mentioned as playing ! any part. The grades affected by this new | decree are those of lieutenant-general, i major-general, and brigadier. Von ’ Plessen, newly-appointed plenipoteni tiary Minister to the German Embassy i in Rome, is probably responsible for ■ the change, for it happened soon after I his arrival in Rome
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22471, 5 January 1943, Page 3
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157ITALIAN GENERALS Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22471, 5 January 1943, Page 3
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