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Tall Pierre Pucheu had made many an enemy in his career as steel cartelist, Fascist fellow traveler and Vichy Minister of Interior (1941-42). Now, he was on trial for his life, charged with defeatism, lèse-patrie, the murder of French resisters, the hounding of French workers at the behest of the Nazi Reich. His accusers said that the Council of Resistance in the homeland had long ago condemned Pierre Pucheu to death. They cited repressive Vichy measures bearing Pierre Pucheu's signature. Presumably their most telling evidence was presented in camera, lest unknown Frenchmen in France...
Argentine nationalists put on a show last week in front of the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires. Waving flags of Argentina, Spain, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile, they shouted "Down with the Yankees!" Loud were the cheers for the new President, Edelmiro Farrell, stooge of Fascist-minded Colonel Juan Domingo Perón. Loud were the jeers for the U.S., which had failed to form a united hemisphere front against his recognition...
There was no strike. Explained an anti-Fascist spokesman, the republican Action Party's Prince Caracciolo: "We had to give in to precise orders from General [Sir Henry Maitland] Wilson...
Amateurs at Work. Field Security officers in Italy move into newly occupied towns along with, or only a few steps behind, the front-line combat troops. The security men make a quick check on the townspeople, find out who were the Fascist leaders and send them back to the lines at the tail end of batches of German prisoners. It doesn't take much detective work to uncover the town scoundrels. No overpowering display of authority is needed to get rid of them...
...Savoy. Said Winston Churchill of Allied policy in Italy: "We are working ... to aid ... the King and Badoglio. . . . [When we] enter Rome . . we shall review the whole position . . . The various Italian [anti-Fascist] parties . . . have ... no constitutional authority. . . . When you have to hold a hot coffeepot it is better not to break off the handle until you are sure that you can get another equally convenient and serviceable, or at least that you will find a dish cloth handy...