The place of Italy was settled for the duration. Pietro Badoglio completed a maneuver begun last July when Vittorio Emanuele had him seize Mussolini: Italy had been eased from the losing to the winning side without so much as the loss of a king.
Unwittingly, Badoglio had done the Allies a great but indirect service. His declaration of war against his former ally last week had the approval of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin; their joint acceptance of Italy as a cobelligerent was the first three-way declaration on the record. It meant more to the...
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