DEADLOCK IN ITALY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24900, 13 June 1946, Page 5

DEADLOCK IN ITALY

King Insists On Awaiting Supreme Court Ruling

DISORDERS IN NAPLES AND ROME

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. The Italian Cabinet is meeting again to-day to try to end the deadlock about the setting up of the Republic. “Huge street fires were burning in the centre of Naples early this morning, as Monarchist crowds from behind barricades of tram-cars fought gun battles with armoured cars and police ” says the “Daily Express” correspondent in Naples. ’ A report from Rome says that the Cabinet at a.midnight meeting failed to break the deadlock between the Left Wing politicians and King Umberto. The Left Wing demand immediate proclamation of the Republic. The King insists on remaining until the Supreme Court has finally ruled on the validity of the referendum. When the Cabinet meeting broke up at 2 a.m., the VicePremier (Signor Nenni) said that if a solution were not reached to-diy, he would demand the summoning of the newly-elected Constituent Assembly on Saturday. (The Assembly is not due to meet until June 24.) The Minister of- Commerce (Signor Gronchi), supporting Signor Nenni’s demand, said: “We need Parliament’s decision to avoid civil war.”