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...more important for the U.S. to keep a foothold in Western Europe than in Japan. Japan is not a very good place from which to do strategic bombing of possible Russian targets. The U.S. does not owe the Japanese anything. The U.S. had the right, and duty, to disarm them after the war, even though someone else might later cut their throats...
...Dewey was at pains to disarm any suspicion that he still had ambitions for the presidency. He was glad to be in Washington for a visit, he declared. "At one time last year, I expected to come for a longer stay. I was under the impression, which was shared by a great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician...
...content to stop at parliamentary fisticuffs. Said he: "The aim of the new constitution was and is creation of a new order in the Italian state ... It is a problem which must inevitably be solved on the basis of force, of relation of material force . . . It is impossible to disarm an insurrection when it springs from political or class necessity. Sans-culottes* found arms to storm the Bastille and conquer proud Versailles . . . They did what they had to do ... The nations will break away from Western Union as the workers take power, break capitalism's predominance, and the people...
Michigan's hidebound Representative Fred L. Crawford knows what headlines are made of; last year he proposed that the U.S. order Russia to disarm or be atomized instead. Last week, with a nudge from the Hearst press, he made another headline. Hearst's Washington bureau had discovered that the head of the Commerce Department's Office of Industry Cooperation, John C. Virden, had a 22-year-old daughter working in Washington for Tass, the official Russian news agency...
...Lift your skirt just a little higher there, queenie" is the most used query of CRIMSON photographers. The reply is almost always in the affirmative. It seems that the combination of camera and press card melts females at sight and has ever been known to disarm a dean...