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Deeper Darkness. Almost nothing could be clearly discerned as the darkness of Japan's darkest hour grew deeper. But there were rumors of a struggle between War Minister Anami and the diehard war lords, on one side, and an unofficial, pro-peace "Committee of 21." There were rumors that Crown Prince Akihito, 11, might succeed his father...
...neat solution. Said the Ottawa Evening Journal: "[He] is peculiarly qualified to give this country service far beyond his ritualistic duties." But many French Canadians were unsoothed. Cried the nationalist Le Droit: "Once more Mr. King has gone to Great Britain for Canada's Governor General. The diehard imperialists once more have gained their ends...
Congress was clearly in step with the nation's march toward world cooperation. Even Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, who led a diehard fight against Senate approval, admitted that the country was now internationalist (but he termed it "pathological internationally...
...Japan was inevitably a war against its Emperor. In this sense, the great U.S. military redeployment from West to East was aimed directly at the myth of the divine Mikado, ruling a divine nation on the warpath. Grimy U.S. soldiers and marines who were last week digging out their diehard enemy from the caverns of Okinawa and Luzon were just as surely digging out this myth from the dark corners of the Japanese mind...
...Moslem League must agree to equal representation in the Executive Council. The Moslems, who are outnumbered by the Hindus, like this idea.* Bhulabhai Desai, Congress leader in the Assembly (TIME, March 19) with whom Viscount Wavell reportedly discussed this question, hopes that the Congress party will also agree. But diehard nationalists may hold out against British control of finance and of defense...