Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using the then hostile Italy as an example, he stated that as we move into Calabria, the liberals will wish to destroy all existing forms of the present Italian political set-up. We should, he declared, be willing to cooperate with both pro and anti factions in the local areas, depending upon which faction is predominate and would be received best by the populace. His two main points were that we should work through existing social organizations and that we should proceed by small integrated steps rather than by bold moves in changing over the political set-up of Italy...
...Yntema is best known to business men for the price studies he prepared for U.S. Steel during the TNEC investigation, which proved - at least to Big Steel's satis faction - that the industry's pricing poli cies were about right. His contribution to C.E.D. cannot yet be judged: the Division's first studies come out this fall...
...many an anti-Fascist Italian and many an Allied citizen, with North Africa in mind, it looked as though a deal with the House of Savoy might be in the making. But one thing was certain by this week: Marshal Badoglio and his faction in the Quirinal were not moving quickly enough...
Swiftly the new Premier decreed martial law, with a ban against all public gatherings and a dawn-to-dusk curfew, over restive, smoldering Italy. He formed a new cabinet sprinkled with military and professional names. In every action Pietro Badoglio and the aristocratic, clerical faction he represented showed the core of their ambition: They wanted a conservative, disciplined, monarchial Italy. They were not averse to keeping the gains of their league with fascismo. They still spoke of the "King Emperor," a title bestowed on the head of the House of Savoy after the conquest of Ethiopia...
Certain French Interests. The anti-De Gaulle faction in Algiers included an unsavory lot: thousands of ex-Vichyites, many recently "escaped" from the homeland; royalists; big industrialists who had always feared the Republic more than the Nazis; antidemocrats like Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the peanut-oil king, who helped install Giraud, then was dis missed from an important liaison post, is now making overtures to the De Gaullists. But the classic example was Marcel Peyrouton, the opportunist who as a Vichy minister signed Charles de Gaulle's death warrant and later was plucked from exile to become the Giraudist Governor...