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...action). When Britain's first Labor Government came into power in 1924, he took fright. He invested a large part of his fortune in the U. S., turned his editorial guns on Communism, began to look respectfully at dictators. In 1934 he jumped on Hitler's bandwagon, threw his support to Sir Oswald Mosley's British blackshirts. He soon abandoned Mosley, but it was not until a few months before World War II broke out that Rothermere lost hope of an alliance between Britain and Germany against Soviet Russia...
...Locomotive Führer went to see Nazidom's Führer. The conference took place secretly in Berlin. Afterwards only terse communiqués took note of the visit, and all the world took it for granted that Bulgaria would soon join the scramble for the Axis bandwagon. But a whole week passed by, and Bulgaria did not sign. Boris had weighed the odds and come to a pretty solution-for the time being...
...Arts and Sciences showed a reversal of the previous Republican leaning, with a 283 to 274 majority for F.D.R. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences also went Democratic, 185 to 148. All other groups except the Commuters and Kirkland House maintained a secure seat on the Willkie bandwagon...
...associated themselves with various phases of the preparedness program are unsympathetic to democracy and await eagerly the surrendering by hundreds of thousands of young Americans of their civilian privileges and immunities as they become draftees under military law. Unquestionably a goodly fraction of the most agile jumpers-onto-the-bandwagon-of-Preparedness are out to play the trend for all it is worth as a business proposition. Unquestionably, these two groups are the enemies of democracy...
...Matsuoka's policy would be. "Japan's foreign policy," said the Premier after thinking for a long time, "will be renovated." Everyone knew what he meant. Other less discreet Cabinet Ministers had indulged in a chorus of blatantly tough speeches. Japan, like Italy, was aboard the bandwagon of triumph, and for the first time Japanese statesmen openly aired their fantastic ambitions. Kobayashi (Commerce) declared: "A high degree of State efficiency must be achieved through hitching ourselves to the Italo-German Axis." Yasui (Home & Welfare) boasted: "We cannot doubt that the day will soon come when Japan can share...