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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan's constitution, which says: "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal," and Article III, which says: "The Emperor is sacred and inviolable." It was Shinto that taught Japanese law students: "Subjects have no mind apart from the will of the Emperor." Shinto taught Japanese Army privates: "Those who, with the words 'Tenno Heika Banzai!' (May the Emperor live forever!) on their lips, have consummated a tragic death in battle, whether they are good or whether they are bad, are thereby sanctified...
Thoreau was only at Walden for a short period, but is mainly associated with it. The Bowery is only one of the fox holes from which I have observed life. I have only lived there for short periods about twenty years apart and I do not consider that my present address (Maison Gerard, 311 West 33 St., New York City--ed.) is in the Bowery. A hundred years from now when the Charles T. Copeland of that period lectures at Harvard on Joe Gould and his circle he will point out that my life has always been distinguished...
There were little groups of men who continued to fight, who here & there formed a hard core that had to be torn apart. But actually the phase of the "pockets" seemed to be ending before it had well begun. The Wehrmacht was through. This was its death rattle...
...year the Superfortresses had come far. Operational losses, once admittedly as high as 5%, were now negligible. Small, ineffective raids, spaced about two weeks apart at first, had grown to 400-plane raids at two-day intervals. More than 60,000 tons of bombs have been dropped on Japan, almost twice the 37,000 tons U.S. and R.A.F. planes dropped on all Europe in 1942. New U.S. fire bombs have proved to be a white-hot success...
...defeat of the German armies in the west came up to its final phase last week. Few historic campaigns have gone according to their advance blueprints, but the battles in which the main body of the enemy's forces west and east of the Rhine were clawed apart followed the original Eisenhower pattern almost to the letter...