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Three weeks ago Germany tried to fake a fait accompli. Berlin newsmen reported that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under...
...presence is now a fait accompli, and not all the courts in the Commonwealth can drive him from his sanctuary in the Faculty Club. But his arrival means more for the University than victory over a loud-mouthed Boston politician. It means that academic freedom is still the guiding principle of the men who control Harvard...
There is room--and plenty of it--for discussion of the ways and means of defense and the issue of defense against whom and what. But why not choose a course that is politically feasible and cease sniping at what is fait accompli? Horace Bresler...
...preparing to sell some of our "Flying Fortresses" to Britain. Mr. Willkie was caught napping on the destroyer deal, with no chance to comment until afterwards. Now, with another horse trade in progress behind the scenes, he has a chance to attack something better than an untouchable fait accompli, and score a real hit on the President's dictatorial methods. If his protest against the destroyer deal was sincere, he will surely not let this opportunity go begging...
...know better than to believe him implicitly. What electrified the crowded roomful of correspondents was the audacity with which the deal was consummated: it would not be presented to Congress for approval. A Congressional veto was out of the question. Congress was being told about it as a fait accompli...