Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...speaking his piece, Judge Hastie had put his finger on an Army-wide problem that already has resulted in many a round of fisticuffs and occasional disorder and insubordination. Although long-standing white prejudice against the Negro could not be dissolved by Government fiat, Judge Hastie's airing did his cause no harm...