Pietro Badoglio's regime got the strongest shot in the arm it has so far received from the Allies. The Allied Military Government withdrew from Sicily, Sardinia, and the Italian mainland south of the Salerno-Bari line (see map).*
Marshal Badoglio's rule, previously restricted to the Adriatic heel of Italy, was extended to all of these areas, with the following provisos: 1) the Italian administration, both central and local, must be by men of good faith, sympathetic to the Allies; 2) this temporary step involves no Allied commitment to the Marshal or to King Vittorio...
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