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...Government for not restoring pre-war conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry caused sleepless nights to the quasi-Führers at Vichy...
...last three years Japan's Government has seemed totalitarian, but it has actually been unmitigated chaos. Japanese realize this, and have wistfully desired to do something about it. Since the Emperor, the Army and the Constitution are in varying degrees inviolable, it was concluded that the first chaotic element to unify should be the political parties. Japan's two major, three minor parties rate as follows...
...short of war" because it might be hazardous in the extreme for this country to become involved in war, if that war is soon to be lost. It may well be that we shall want to intervene later, but we must first see our way more clearly than the chaotic events of this moment will permit. What is needed now is a clear-headed and realistic willingness to learn the lessons of events as they occur and to come to these events with our minds unburdened with rigid attitudes adopted in advance...
...Suzy," the ultra-fashionable hatshop is the same old chaotic monkey house it always was. The floor like a carpenter's shop, ankle-deep in debris, straws, feathers, spangles and silk flowers. Clients sitting mesmerized before individual mirrors, Sumner Welles at last forgotten, while cunning workwomen pull roses or bows over their right eyes...
...personal opinion that despite the chaotic, half-crazed existence which Van Gogh led, his paintings are as sanc, as natural as any creation ever to come from the brush of an artist. If, as many say, they are the artistic symptoms of a deranged mind, it can be said with equal conviction that in many cases his deranged mind has succeeded in breaking through certain superimposed limits of expression and has gone beyond the barrier of empirical observation in a surprisingly unaffected and natural way. His mind was no hodge-podge while he was actually painting; on the contrary...