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...Historical Example. At first Italians showed resentment of Alcide de Gasperi for the quick and unceremonious demise of the Pella regime; his picture was even booed in some newsreel theaters. The Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano took the rare step of publicly entering a political scrap-on Pella's side. But with surprising haste much of the newspaper following which Pella had built up petered away within hours of his resignation; two of Italy's strongest newspapers came out next morning against any attempt to reform the government along Pella's lines. "No rightist solution is possible...
Toward the end of the trial, the bishop began to wilt, his ruddy face gone sallow, his eyes vacant behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...
...Sure Loser. A team of linguistic experts testified to 32 different points of similarity between the anonymous letters and writings known to be by Helander. Most noteworthy: his peculiar abbreviation, "Nr:2" for "No. 2." A university charwoman testified that she found a scrap of one of the letters in Helander's scrap basket. Then the bishop's fingerprints were discovered on three of the letters...
...finally gave way, in 1926, to another general, sly Kurt von Schleicher. Under Schleicher, the army was not above, but in, politics. Vain, unscrupulous, he schemed incessantly behind the republic's back. Worst of all, he let Hitler's private army of brown shirts grow to a scrap-happy, unmanageable...
White cleared every scrap of paper out of his office, packed his goods in crates, and rode off in the truck that carried the crates. Eleven months later White was called to testify before the New York federal grand jury, which was investigating Communist infiltration. The jury did not indict him. That was 20 months before Chambers identified the pumpkin-paper memorandum in White's handwriting...