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This was a complete definition of what worried Tokyo last week, and there was no sign that Tokyo was getting anywhere with it. The advocates of physical force spoke loud & long. Blunt-faced Toshio Shiratori, potent diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Office, who rants like any Nazi about "plutocratic Jews and democrats," declared: "The greatest reason for Japan's participation in the triple alliance lies in the fact that the three signatory powers at this time of great change in the world situation have the same position, the same interests and entertain the same political views. China...
Significantly the pounding unit went to Crete. The move was a blunt tip-off that so far as the Germans were concerned the job of bridging the Mediterranean to Libya was finished; that the Axis force there was nearly ready to roll. The move brought death from the air to Alexandria, which lies within striking distance of Crete (see p. 21). At Crete the unit was also available if necessary for action in Syria...
...into four economic areas (see map), the "abstract" made one thing clear: Germany and Japan do their diplomatic thinking along deadly parallels. But whereas Germany's appeasement feeler was designed to convince unanalytical U.S. citizens of its reasonableness, no matter what its intent, Japan's was a blunt invitation to the U.S. to abdicate as a great power. The plan...
...reprinting the Constitution and leading sermons preached east of the Mississippi, the Transcript specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
...campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...