Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Péron's goal was apparently to coordinate both capital and labor in a corporate state. The new state, said he, would be governed by a principle higher than law, "the welfare of the country." Colonel Péron was already higher than law. In his files, ready for instant use, were the signed resignations of the army officers who comprise the GOU. Opponents of the Government were threatened last week with concentration camps and some had already been sent there...
...fact about the Four Freedoms, as we see it out here on the West Coast, is that the instant you begin to number your freedoms you begin, also, to restrict and limit them...
...Italian Government has surrendered its armed forces unconditionally. . . . I have granted a military armistice, the terms of which have been approved by the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. . . . The armistice . . . becomes effective this instant...
...instant" was 6:30 p.m., Sept. 8, 1943. All that day the wave lengths down the Mediterranean from Rome had be rated the Allies, promised a big battle against their invasion armies. Now General Eisenhower and his staff listened for a proclamation of surrender from the Italian Government. The minutes slipped away to 7:30 p.m. Then spoke the Piedmont soldier's voice of Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
Fraser made instant reply, charged that the survey was a farce designed to divert attention from shocking neglect of U.S. history in public schools...