Word: promptly
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Evidence of the delicacy of the situation came in the President's prompt public repudiation of an OWI overseas broadcast which had categorized King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Pietro Badoglio as Fascists . The general tone the U.S. Government will maintain was rung in the Fireside Chat: "Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan-'unconditional surrender.' We will have no truck with Fascism in any way, in any shape or manner.. We will permit no vestige of Fascism to remain...
Equally deft is Paramount's political touch & go. The rumors started as far back as the spring of 1941 that outside forces were tampering with the script and even with the production. Paramount's denials were prompt. So were everybody else...
...have-not" nation in oil, he said, when the last drop of its oil fields is drained (if the present rate continues). Same day, Assistant Deputy Petroleum Administrator Robert E. Allen warned that the U.S. is threatened with a permanent oil shortage in two years unless "miraculously prompt" discovery of new fields offsets declining production. The U.S. must bring in 20,000 new wells a year, said he, to maintain present production...
...Allies last week named the conditions under which Rome can be spared bombings, and called on the Italian government for a prompt answer. The conditions: 1) Rome must be declared an open city; 2) all German and Italian troops must evacuate the city; 3) all military installations and machinery for the production of munitions must remain unused in the city; 4) no trains may pass through Rome; 5) no power may be generated there for war plants outside. These were the conditions under which the Germans spared Paris in June...
...document came to the U.S. State Department in a diplomatic pouch from Vatican City, was soon in the hands of the Office of War Information. With OWI as its pressagent, it got wide and prompt newspaper coverage, was also assured of European circulation as a piece of first-rate propaganda against the Nazis...