DEMONSTRATIONS IN ROME

Chronicle (Levin), 8 June 1946, Page 5

DEMONSTRATIONS IN ROME

Press Assti.

Kkg Umberto Aml Royal Family Going To Portugal

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Reeeived Saturdav, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, Juno 7. Police swinging short, black clubs broke up Monarchists demonstrating in tho contro oF Romo to-day, says ihe Associatml Press of Great Britain's eorreapomlenl:. About, 200 demonstralors paradod through Ihe erowded streots shoutiug, "Long b\ • Ihe King" and "Down with Ihe Repnl)lic!" Fist fighls with 1 1 1 ; ■ Re])ublieans developed before ihe police. intervened.. vX, Police precautions against demonstrations have been rerooubled. A 1 1 approaches to the Palace, where King Umberto i.- still in residenco, have been cordoned off. The Portugnese Foreign Office has announced that King Umheiio and family will go to Porfugal, says Reutor's Lisbon (•oi respondont. All oftieials so far have maintained a strict re-S'-i've on Ihe question.

'('• Ti'iii si-vnvs touk placo al tho TJm- : il I'ahit-e , a* Italian notables, (ilii i-r- and pvrsonul J'rinnds of King l ,..i..*iiu i-allfd to inakti tinui' farewell.*. I ! •! . (ii'.r Premier after ihe eollapse oi I'.u- I u. vi«t Kegime ( Marslifil Badogjif. uept as ln* b-it tlip King's nib ■ . and : oino of tlie iiutuble.s who v ■ loa\ ing (•aii ifd autographed ]d: i apii:' of Iving Lniberio. I; i- uitirhilly stateJ ihal Queen M-;. r .1 ii (* is en route to Portugal ali' :u I ihe eruiser Duead og I i Abruzzi. jioki -funan coulirmcd that the Puke oi ..ti i:t is going to Belgium. K > ) • 1'iiilx-rlo wa* still in liome last ni, i.*. lle is ludieved to he awaiting !i.«- d-inial piorlamat ion of the Ropuidn , alton he will issue a farewell *: .!«:•«• to his people before going to lv" p: in jniii his falher in exile. t'iie tio' KepubUean Press is ,jubila t: \ 1 > II ;t lidiist lieWspftpers ai'e tl'ving ti • io»w that the Kepubliean majority i. ; M-iil. They elaim, tiierefore, that j tio i. • i ii« iiit % must be laken into. full ' J

eonsideration regarding " thnne ideale whieh they defended tlirough their support -of the Monareliy — order, security, peaee, libeftv, and a guarantee of the valued traditions of Christianity. Italy will l'onnally be derdared a Eepublio on or after Juno 12 fnot June S, as previouslv reported) in a eere inony at Parliament House. * ltaly 'snow Chief of State, to be eleeted at the initial meeting of the C'onstituent Assembly oji June 2-1, will rdioose the new Premier, It will probably be Signor de (lasperi. The Moseow radio hailed (he outeome of Italy 's eleetions as a victory for Demoeraey and a defeat for the reaetionary forces whieh "wero well stipported by the Valiean and eneour agetl by the reaetionary eireles in l!ritain and Ameriea, wliose oeeupation troops are stationed in Italy. Tho Reptiblie signalises a break with the. Lmperialist and Paseist Powers and Ifalv's einbarkation upon the road to broad soeial and politieal reforms."