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...their democratic state," he was falling back on the old, dubious view that Hitler's' New Order had been the work of only a few Nazi gangsters. The 3,000,000 Sudeten Germans, now joining Europe's miserable displaced millions, had risen in a mass to betray the Czechs...
...Calm. Short's greatest concern at the time was not the possibility of an attack from the sea but of sabotage by Japanese on the island; 37% of Hawaii's population were of Japanese origin. Short thought one way to avoid stirring up the population was to betray no anxiety, which alerts and maneuvers might have done. This, in spite of the fact that Honolulu newspapers at the time were screaming: "JAPANESE MAY STRIKE, OVER WEEKEND"-"U.S. ARMY ALERTED IN MANILA, SINGAPORE MOBILIZING AS WAR TENSION GROWS"-"PACIFIC ZERO HOUR NEAR...
...powder blast drive to the rear through the breech as the projectile is driven forward. Result: the rearward blast cancels out the "kick" of the gun. One of the weapon's drawbacks: the blast-a fiery column 12-to-15 ft. long, about 4 ft. in diameter-might betray its location to the enemy...
What Is Truth? But the official Russians were the weakest witnesses. Molotov in 1939 had said: "The present war . . . lays the foundation for a new bloody struggle which will involve the whole world. . . . The leaders of capitalism . . . betray the masses of their people by asserting that the aim of the war is the protection of democracy." Now he preached collaboration. The Ukrainian chairman in San Francisco, Dmitry Z. Manuilsky, had said in 1939: "Not a stone will remain of the cursed capitalist structure." Now he echoed Joseph Grew's statement that there were no basic conflicts between...
Urge to Self-Punishment. A murderer, he observes, almost invariably leaves at least one revealing clue. This is no accident: every murderer, however brutal, seems to be driven by an unconscious compulsion to betray himself, to punish himself for his crime. The more cautious he is, the more certain he is to make a misstep; some criminologists say that the hardest murder to solve is a completely impulsive...