Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mineichi Koga knows that he cannot commit large forces to one sector of Japan's huge defensive perimeter until he is sure that a heavier blow will not fall on another sector. He has to hold back until he is sure. He has been holding back quite a bit lately. But some day soon he will have to strike. If he does not, the rest of what Admiral Nimitz said will come explosively true...
...London palmist (Thomas Mitchell) reads a lawyer's palm, informs him that he is about to commit a murder. The lawyer (Edward G. Robinson), plays into the hands of fate (with a murder...
Just who was about to commit the blunder of "island-hopping," the General did not say. Island-hopping has been denounced by all. So far the U.S. has been unable to assemble enough strength in the Pacific to do anything else. But developments had apparently convinced MacArthur that when forces for "massive strokes" were assembled they would be entrusted to someone else. He was to be overshadowed, overlapped, inadequately supplied and relegated to a pipsqueak holding campaign...
...Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
This shrewd advice helped get headlines, sure enough. Whether it, or the hearings, would get Gene Cox anywhere, remained to be seen. Already there were signs to the contrary. The New York Herald Tribune condemned the Commit tee's tactics and how-nowed Congress for permitting "backstairs propaganda." Lawrence Fly still...