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...Europe, then desperately trying to scramble out of the ruins and the many million graves of World War I, the shy, slack-chinned, bespectacled Prince found himself constantly teetering on the brink of sacrilege. In Paris he went shopping and discovered he needed money, which imperial etiquette forbade him to touch. Iri London's Guildhall he got entangled in the long scroll of a speech he was reading. The audience, undisciplined by Shinto, found it hard to suppress a titter. Hirohito took a subway ride, incognito, and his entourage was horrified when a brusque Cockney conductor berated...
...conventional ministry ... is no ministry for these days when mankind totters on the brink of damnation. . . . The gospel cannot be preached dispassionately, tentatively or listlessly...
Sirs: My brother-in-law, Myron E. Brink, sent this letter written in lead pencil to be typed and sent to you. Mr. Brink was President of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce. . . . "After being starved, robbed, and kicked around for three years, we were rescued yesterday from the Los Banos Internment Camp. Yesterday we were to have eaten banana stalks. That was all and the Japs said there would be no more food. "About sunrise our planes came over, dropped paratroops and engaged our guards. The guerrillas also attacked, and during the fighting our tanks drove in through our prison...
Before he left for his home in the country-at Luoviers, where he is Mayor -M. Mendès-France unburdened himself of an earnest warning. The nation, he said, stood on the brink of a dangerous inflationary spiral. "Economic powers," particularly the Bank of France, had "brought to bear a strong, indiscreet but apparently most effective pressure" against his proposal for stern preventive measures. M. Mendès-France was sorrowful, not angry. He went off with the air of a doctor who expects to be called back...
General Pat landed in China last September to confer with Chiang Kai-shek at a tragically low point in China's fortunes. The Chungking Government, after seven years of war, was teetering on the brink of economic and military disaster. With the recall to Washington of General Joe Stilwell and Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss, Diplomat Hurley took over the thankless, monumental job of watching out for the best interests of both the U.S. and Ally China. It was not Pat's first hard chore...