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armed with spray guns and nicotine sul phate, sallied into the tomato and potato fields. Last week, thanks to their deter mined attack and the arrival of hot weather, it looked as if Ohio and its neighboring states had succeeded in repelling the worst invasion of aphids since...
This understanding did not deter him from sanctifying the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of North China in 1937, the blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The totalitarian forces which had shaped his state shaped his place in it. The westernized elder statesmen and their successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki...
...have done. I thought that if I claimed to be a friend of the British as I do, nothing should deter me from sharing my deepest thoughts with...
...Agreed politely with the American Chemical Society that it would "deter the conduct of the war to take young chemists, chemical engineers and physicists away from work" and put them into uniform...
Ruth Earnshaw, Philadelphia-born wife of Professor Lo Chuan-fang: "Out here we sometimes indulge in the notion that we college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter mined to stick it out. . . . We know that China's war is not solely against the Japa ese; it is almost equally against ignorance and poverty, and our battle on the education front will go on long after the last shot is fired at the invader." Professor Lo (University...