Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official Nazi party, a Nazi sympathy movement has been simmering for years within its National Union party. Fortnight ago, emboldened by Nazi success in Austria, the Liechtenstein Nazi leaders openly announced that they were off to Berlin "to seek closer ties with Germany." Last week, in elections for the Diet following the Prince's abdication, the National Unionists made a vigorous showing, winning 48 government electors against 52 for the Bourgeois (Government) party. Twenty-four hours later the young Prince deemed it wise to reshuffle his Cabinet, give several posts to National Union Nazis. At the same time...
...moderates ran France, the leftwing press suffered lean days. Since 1936, roles have been reversed. The Popular Front press has licked the subsidy platter clean. The Left & Right papers have raised their price per copy three times in a year, but after nearly two years on a bread & water diet most of the conservative dailies are in the last stages of anemia...
Members of the Diet have been going to work through Tokyo streets bristling with savage posters such as those which shrieked: "THOSE OPPOSING THE NATIONAL MOBILIZATION BILL ARE DOGS!" In charge of the police, as Minister of Home Affairs, is fiery Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu. When deputies demanded that the posters be taken down he stormed at these representatives of the Japanese people as though they were schoolboys meddling on a warship's bridge. However, after 73-year-old Mr. Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass Party, had had his jaw broken by ruffians and retired to bed, Admiral...
...Imperial Majesty's Government, under its bill, proposes to run Japan under a Planning Commission with authority as complete as that of the Soviet Union State Planning Commission, but only "if in time of war it is found necessary." Much of the shouting and desk-banging in the Diet has been in efforts to find out whether His Imperial Majesty's Government considers that Japan today is at war-for Japan has not declared war on any country-and therefore whether or not the National Mobilization Bill would be operative as soon as passed. Premier Prince Konoye, after...
Japan's War Minister General Gen Sugiyama told a committee of the Tokyo Diet fortnight ago that even the versatile Japanese could not fight 450,000,000 Chinese and play games simultaneously; that if the "China incident" continues, it might be best to cancel the 1940 Olympics. Next day the Japanese Olympic organizing committee, pooh-poohing opposition as coming "from a small and not very strong group of extreme Nationalists or Fascists," announced a 5,000,000-yen ($1,450,000) budget for a Tokyo Olympic village. On his way to Cairo, Egypt, where the International Olympic Committee...