| Show King Ex of at Italy Succumbs I iI Egypt Villa ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRI Egypt Dec Dee 29 UP UP 78 the diminutive king whose 20 years of subservience to Benito Mussolini ed led led to the downfall of or or- orthe the House of Savoy and nd ne nearly brought about bout the ruin of Italy died in exile Sunday Sunday Sun Suri- day of ot pneumonia at his Alexand Alexandria Alexandria Alex Alex- and andria ia villa Elena tall 74 74 year year wife of ot the tho form former r ruler was at his bedside bedside bedside bed bed- side w when death came The former king was Wa stricken wi with th double double pneumonia V Wednesday while hIIe J p r r. epa r in ln g to celebrate Chr with Christmas He was vas taken ak n to tc the tho Italian n hospital in Alexandria A dispatch h from Lisbon said that hat who succeeded t his father ather as king f for r o one e month unil un un- Ui til il the Italians threw out the out themon- themon monar mon mon- monr ar r hy hy- planned rin c d to to l i leave ve v Monday for of Alexandria Rt Ruled le by Duce Vittorio Emanuele est esteemed emed by his hip people after fl W i World War VarI Var I came me under the domination dom of Uni in n 1922 when the latter m marched on Rome Romend and nd the king summoned d him orm a cabinet At th the time Marshal Pietro ad w was reported report d to have asked the king to give him a afew few regimentS to smash smail the thc black shIrt shirt uprising but was turned down because the king wanted to avoid bloodshed During During- the the- e ensuing years ears the three foot mon monarch signed a along long ong series o of fascist decrees Mussolini Mus- Mus olini placed b fore him The Tle pi picture tur finally changed in July 1943 when allied victories in n the the Mediterranean theater showed Italy's true weakness and Vittorio Emanu Emanuele Je played a major majorr r role die le in unseating the dictator to whom he had pl played y d yes m man for many o years When hen finally he found asylum with the allies Emanuele denounced Mussolini and Hitler The It It Italians li s rem remembered too keenly keenly his previous loyalties how how- ever ver ever and called for his abdication tion ion In 1944 when the allies took Rome the king surrendered his power power- to Umberto as general of of the realm a a- move Which mao mace e him king king- kingin in name only Abdicates tes Throne Public feeling remained hostile and in a final move to to save the House louse of Savoy Vitt Vittorio rio Emanuele on n May 1 document abdication f in favor of Umberto and sailed with his wife to Alex Alexand and andria r rIa la The move was too late and a lians voted In Jn a plebiscite plebiscite f fOr x a r republican publican form onn of f government Vittorio Vittoria Emanuel Emanuele who succeeded succeed- succeed ed to the throne on July 29 1900 Vo when hen his liS father Umberto I was assassinated met Elena a Mon Mon- p princess i c s who ho stood six inches above him while represent represent- Ing ing- ng his father at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II n in St. St Petersburg Peters- Peters burg They hey were were married in Rome Romen in n October 1896 1806 Besides Umberto the couple had four our i daughters Yolanda the thc eldest eldest eld eld- eld- eld est married Count Calvi di Bergob Ber Ber- golo gob in jn 1923 Mafalda married Prince Philip of Hesse After Mussolini's down down- f all elIe she was placed in n Buchenwald Buchen- Buchen vald wald prison camp and died th there therein theren re jn in n August 19 1944 i from bomb wounds suffered during an allied raid married Kingi King Boris With her herBon hereon herson son eon King Simeon II she came to Egypt Egypt- in In September 1946 after the the- Bulgarians had voted out the monarchy Maria the youngest married Bourbon Parm Prince Louis of In Rome Prof Tullio Cavagnaro Cavagnaro Cavagnaro naro naro- naro former administrator of the ther r royal yal private estates estat s said that Vittorio Emanuele one Cne of of Eu Europe's Eu Eu- ropes rope's wealthiest monarchs kept worth orth of British bonds all during the war It It- was believed the bonds would go to the new Italian republic |
