Rastenburg, September 16, 1943
Order of the Day of the Government Number 6.
Completing the previous orders of the day, I commissioned Lieutenant General Renato Ricci to assume command of the MVSN.
Order of the Day of the Government Number 7.
The Republican Fascist Party releases the officers of the Armed Forces from their oath given to the king, who, by capitulating according to the well-known conditions and by abandoning his post, has handed the nation over to the enemy and dragged it into shame and misery.
MUSSOLINI
