Portrait of Ferruccio Parri, Italy, 1945
Photograph, portrait photograph of Ferruccio Parri, one-time Deputy Commander of the North Italian Partisans and future Italian Prime Minister. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/29/45--Italian leader--Ferrucio [sic] Parri, deputy commander of the North Italian Partisans, was asked on June 17, 1945, by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, to form a new Italian cabinet, succeeding the government of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, resigned. Parri, an opponent of Fascism from its beginnings, served a total of nine years in Mussolini's jails. He was born in Genoa 55 years ago, served in the 1914-18 war as an infantry officer and edited Corriere Della Sera, Milan's great newspaper, until ousted by the Fascists. He later published underground papers and helped found the Action Party.--OWI Staff photo approved by appropriate military authority--serviced by Rome OWI (D List) 6782."Italy. 29 June 1945