An hour and a half after the people of the United Nations began celebrating Italy's surrender, Radio Berlin was still soothing its listeners with a musical program called Let Us Go On Dreaming. After sufficient time had passed for hard-pressed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels to concoct his explanations, the German radio let out the big, bad news by quoting Allied announcements, adding: "Marshal Badoglio, in the meantime, confirmed the capitulation in a broadcast from Rome, although the King of Italy on Sept. 8 rejected as slander the suggestion that Italy was thinking of...
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