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...shaky pillars of this baroque structure, the Fascist Grand Council, last week held its first officially announced emergency session since the night before Italy daggered France. It was followed by an order which was tantamount to total mobilization and a list of drastic reforms calling for "increased ruthlessness," and "pitiless elimination" of subversive activities. The hour for Fascism to pit its strength against the Allies was nearing...
...shall face them with the strong temper of Chilean character and the certitude that [they] are the price of the defense of democracy and the future of the country's honor." Chileans remembered how last November he had told them that breaking with the Axis would be tantamount...
...rupture with the Axis, as President Juan Antonio Ríos told his country last November, would be tantamount to declaring war and would mean real sacrifices for the nation's already hard-pressed economy. In Washington Dr. Morales had mentioned Chile's vulnerable, 2,800-mile long coastline, the danger to her lifeline of ships, the political difficulties arising out of her large colonies of Germans...
...only was Eisenhower's luncheon date with Darlan a tantamount acknowledgment of the new setup, but he gave it further weight by a public statement: "All Frenchmen worthy of their country's great past have forgotten their small differences of ideas." To Darlan, who still maintains the fiction of acting for Marshal Petain in France, there came messages of support from a scattering of French colonies. A message from Boisson's own West African native group, the Legion of Black Africa, ended with the salutation: "Vive le Marechal [Petain], Vive la France...
Many a U.S. newsman, many a U.S. newspaper joined the outcry: said Amazonian Pundit Dorothy Thompson: "To say [that such censorship is necessary] is tantamount to claiming that the most profound issues of this war may not be publicly discussed, or if publicly discussed, must be confined within the United States." Said Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney: Reasonable censorship of war news to prevent the enemy from receiving advantage is acceptable to everyone. Censorship of opinion is sabotage of the Four Freedoms...