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...past two years. Last week Italian police had him up in court along with Miss Grace Gunther, also a U. S. citizen, expatriated for 30 years in Florence. They were each accused of doing in a big way what most foreigners in Italy do in a small way: buying lire at cut rates from illegal black-bourse traders...
...indictment charged that Mr. Ehret and Miss Gunther, working independently, went further, acted as commission men for numerous friends in the U. S. colony who wanted to trade dollars for lire below the State-established...
...example to other expatriates tempted to chisel with Italian exchange, the Fascist high court in Rome, from whose decision there is no appeal, walloped Mr. Ehret and Miss Gunther with terrific penalties. She got six years in jail and a fine of half a million lire ($25,000 at the official, not the black-bourse, rate of exchange), he seven years and a fine of $15,000. The U. S. Embassy was represented at the trial by Third Secretary Walter C. Bowling and through him Miss Gunther and Mr. Ehret begged the U. S. State Department to intervene...
...peevishly-Dictator Mussolini's personal newsorgan Il Popolo d'ltalia grumbled last week at a Great Power with whom Il Duce is engaged in economic horse trading. On the books of Italian firms are Allied orders for munitions and other war supplies totaling over three billion gold lire ($157,893,000). These orders are being filled for Great Britain and France even ahead of the requirements of the Italian Army. Il Duce would like the Allies to buy more Italian food, fewer manufactures, but they want to continue to keep Italian heavy industry so tied up with their...
...join Germany. Meanwhile, his power has noticeably waned. For one reason or another he handed over to the Prince of Piedmont the command of half the Italian Army. The pay of his own Fascist militiamen, who formed the regime's counter-revolutionary force, was suddenly reduced from eight lire (40?) a day to one lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi to a lira. Such dissident Fascists as Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, and Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Ambassador to Great Britain, have lined up more or less...