Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia

Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia 

In 1944-01 a supreme politico-military authority, the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia, was formed to coordinate the activities of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale and partisans. This body soon asserted its claims to power, not only against Germans and Fascists in the North but also against the official government and against the Allies. Eventually the Allies agreed to recognize the CLNAI as the legitimate political representative of the Resistance forces, and to entrust it with maintaining public order in liberated zones until an Allied Military Government could be set up.