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...valid reason for keeping Badoglio in the Government was that he and shelved King Vittorio Emanuele III had signed the Italian armistice. That document was still in effect, still a factor in Allied relations with Italy. Before he would consent to swallow Bonomi & Co., Mr. Churchill reportedly insisted that each member of the new Cabinet sign the armistice, accept its terms in toto...
Last week came Britain's answer: No, until after the war, when the mandating power, the League of Nations or its successor, could give consent. Trans-Jordan's Cabinet resigned in a huff, but a friendly talk between the Emir and Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner of Palestine, patched up the unpleasantness...
Work among prisoners in the Far East is not so thorough. But since Pearl Harbor the Y has given limited relief to Americans in 70 camps or sub-camps in Japan. And recently it won Jap consent to purchase in the Philippines $25,000 worth of supplies monthly for American prisoners there...
...performance lasts some 15 minutes, perhaps half an hour if the noontime gallery is crowded, with Senator Reynolds on his feet several times, as a vigilant guardian of North Carolina's interests, to ask unanimous consent to insert a North Carolina editorial in the Congressional Record. (No Senator in a generation has been able to put such dramatic flair into such routine...
...members would agree on the par (gold) value of one another's currency at the time they enter the Fund, and none could devalue its currency more than 10% from this original figure-and then only with the consent of the Fund Committee...