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          I) Text of the motion introduced by Dino Grandi and approved by   
ority of the Grand Council at the meeting in Rome. July 25th
 
                                                            
 
 
  "The Grand Council, having taken in consideation the internal   
and international situation and the political and military leadership of   
the war, emphasises the duty for all Italians to stand together in this   
present grave and fateful hour for the future of the fatherland; decides   
that all functioning of the constitutional bodies be immediately   
re-enacted and the Crown, the Government, and parliament resume the task   
and responsibility conferred upon them by our Constitution and by our   
laws; invites the Head of the Government to ask the King, to whom the   
whole nation turns in faith and confidence, to assume the effective  
command of the armed forces; and to take consequently, in compliance with   
article 5 of the Constitution, all supreme initiative of decision that our   
institutions confer upon him and which has always been, in our national   
    history, the heritage of our Royal House of Savoy."     
 
                                                            
 
 
  2) Extract of the sentence pronounced on January l0th 1944 by the   
Fascist Extraordinary Tribunal at Verona aagainst Dino Grandi, former   
             President of the Italian Chamber:              
 
                                                            
 
 
  "....Condemned to death for the crime of high treason, for having   
given help to the enemy, endangered the military resistance of the country   
and of the Italian Army, giving cause to the illusion of a separate peace   
                      with the enemy."                      
 
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