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...message was, Envoy Taylor had only one answer: "I am the message." Not a word leaked out of the Vatican about the subject of the conversations. Italian newspapers were forbidden even to mention Myron Taylor's name-a prohibition that was soon violated by fire-eating Editor Roberto Farinacci of Regime Fascista, who heatedly hissed that Envoy Taylor had come to get the Pope's approval of President Roosevelt's war aims...
Mexico expelled General Roberto Hurtado, exiled some years ago from Nicaragua. The Mexican authorities accused General Hurtado of being an avowed Nazi who had appealed to the German Minister to Mexico for planes to use in an attack on the present Nicaraguan regime...
...power which might threaten the power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece Roberto Farinacci to an unknown fate in Albania. Each of these men possessed great influence over some segment of the Italian people, from royalty to hoi polloi. With the purging of Starace, Benito Mussolini had cut himself even more adrift from connection with the 43,500,000 Italian people...
...President Agustin P. Justo made him Minister of Justice, later Minister of the Interior. His most notable accomplishment in that office was the establishment of the still-existent Argentine postal censorship. In June 1937 he resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency on the coalition ticket headed by Roberto M. Ortiz. Ortiz was a Radical whom the Conservatives thought they could handle, Castillo a Conservative who was considered harmless by the Radicals. Nobody could foresee then that Ortiz would infuriate his Conservative supporters by fighting for honest elections, or that before he could complete his reform he would be laid...
...Army, Correspondent Davis reported on its bankruptcy by telling how Roberto Farinacci's Fascist Party plotters undercut the Old Guard and ousted Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Correspondent Whitaker added: "The Fascists have deliberately spread lies about the corruption of Badoglio. He isn't corrupt. He is merely a very old man. . . . Graziani is a sick man, suffering, perhaps, from cancer of the throat...