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4a 6 ard toe RR ee : pat eee ae * : so ene eet cn COPE oo renee Te eee 3 Gus ohn otis is = i i] os oy 6a o” Rome carly in July. Re ee te oe Sicilian of the dollar, the Americans will succeed Mistrust has reached such a point that a asked for an appointment d immediately took off but several of hor representatives The attitude of Italian petro= Asorican manouvering, is hostile. in favor of the seven big petroleum backed the Right in the recent a 9 fp of “eto (of an oil company) of the alleged tho latter stated that he was out of town an on financially th hay gh wide uso in demolishing all Italian resistance. Ambassador LUCK's intense act 6. firas has slowed down since th fow days ago, when an Amorican agent have bagun to mancuver with with KATTEI, leea circles, informed as t They know that the Americans elections and fear that throu lee for the Acalfitana riviera. mga4) 2. the 6 to e being careful at the same t _When At_ his wife became tho mistress in the German SD. . ertain, KATTsIl paid five gan leader for the title of in n lire DC partisan is) MATTEL's appointmant The latter is now MATTEL's right— He began to work 5. sistance in the CNL. - af eae ntir i Ynuclst un f the Ol (1944 rate of oxchange) to a DC partis of gon r As part of the process who was an important officer 8 of that year, Ger - FSS self Vash neral o RKA and b “trax ols fter Jeptanber Lal with the Germans. Jere Sateen, e Roojstance a beceza Gloar that Allied victory was c "keep in® of an Aug ebief and the was O.K.! hand san. f 7 Montecchd Prepared byt ” G Lester 4. simpson aad a’ } Dietribution: ow Rone