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...demand of the Government whether Japan has a definite foreign policy!" screamed Mr. Ashida, well knowing that he may be assassinated for his rashness. "The public is growing fearful that we are being dragged blindly by the Army in an uncharted, pitch-black abyss. I appeal to the War Minister to forsake the notion that the Japanese Army is almighty...
This historic interchange between a Republican President and his Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
...breathless events Allen loses everything-his friend, his wife, his military honor. He suffers the martyrdom without which Catherine predicted nothing valuable for Ireland or for himself could be won. Outcast, Catherine accompanies him. Like her carrier pigeons, that fly always in one direction through the sky's abyss, the two are oriented by a single ideal, head instinctively toward its consummation, as the pigeons head towards home...
...pose then was to thumbscrew European nations into funding their War debts to the U. S. by denying them fresh credits until they had done so. When all funding was completed, the State Department continued to act as a fiscal censor with the idea of bridging the abyss between Big Business and U. S. foreign policy. While it contended that it did not pass on the security or merits of foreign loans, its method of reporting "no objection" diplomatically to them was often construed by bond salesmen as left-handed approval and used accordingly. Severest critic of this State Department...
...Will the governments of Europe again display the tremendous lack of will power which seems to paralyze them whenever they face this problem. , . .? The social and economic structure of Europe is steadily moving toward an abyss, and if it continues it will leave no alternative between repudiation of debts and chaos...