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...began in Rome one day in June 1924, when an old woman sitting in a doorway and a little boy playing in the street saw a grey Fiat sedan pull up to a curb. Five men jumped out, grabbed Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, leader of the opposition to Benito Mussolini. They wrestled him into the car. It raced away. That was the last that was seen of Matteotti until his body, stabbed 36 times, beaten, partly burned, was found a few days later in a Roman ditch...
Three Players. In the ensuing uproar, the triangular state of U.S.-British-Gaul-list relations became more apparent than ever. London newsmen heard that Winston Churchill was astounded when he heard of the arrangement for fiat invasion currency, was far from satisfied with the explanations given him. President Roosevelt indirectly confirmed the impression that the U.S. had fathered the plan. He said that the Gaullists knew about it all along. He added that they had not approved the plan, but had not rejected it, either. Evidently, in this as in other aspects of the French imbroglio, Britain had reluctantly followed...
This newest fiat from Washington did bring some light into the darkness of the confused manpower situation...
...utterly unrealistic to suppose that . . . problems of such delicacy can be solved out-of-hand by the fiat of your committee's directives. . . . Manifestly, such directives are wholly lacking in due process of law and for that reason are without legal effect. . . . Your committee was and is wholly without Constitutional and legal jurisdiction...
...Senate, unable (or as yet unwilling) to rise up and oust Donald Nelson as WPBoss, this week passed a bill which would rip away a substantial half of his domain, and hand it over to an entirely new kind of czar-one created by legislation, not by Presidential fiat...