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...speed construction of naval, air and marine bases (but nothing to fortify Guam, at Japan's doorstep...
...ultimate personal obligation of a citizen admits of no debate; still less of debate founded upon anxiety for one's own skin; least of all of irresponsible, highly publicized debate by a minority of men of that University on whose doorstep the arms of Washington came into being; whose sons were foremost among the resolute, skilled and fire-hardened men who turned the tide at Gettysburg; whose undergraduates and graduates when out by thousands in 1917 saying, in the words of President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to our class, "There is a sound of a going in the tops...
...Milan Achimovich. Slovene Nationalists issued a manifesto attacking Germany and Italy, which the Italian press promptly blamed on Allied intrigue. A Yugoslav trade commission reached Moscow and presumably talked also about diplomatic recognition of and by the big Slav brother. But Italy and Germany were on Yugoslavia's doorstep and Russia was far away...
...squarely on the doorstep of Luxembourg. . . . The bugles were sounding this morning across the [Moselle] river and there was infantry on the road in massed columns. . . . There are cavalry maneuvers in the grassy meadow downriver a few miles from Remich. . . . The roads are jammed with Army trucks. . . . Every path that comes down from the main road into the meadow has a terminus in a wooden jetty. . . . No attempts are made to conceal the pontoon sections lying alongside...
...tailored not like a kimono but in the calm coat-&-pants language of international law. It set off new Japanese frenzies. It was "legalistic," said the Foreign Office, and did nothing to assuage Japan's dignity, injured by this insult "right in her front garden" - "on her very doorstep." Properly angered, Japan tightened the Tientsin blockade - stopped the passage of food into the British concession, turned on the juice in the encircling electrified barbed wire. None but Italians and White Russians were allowed to take food into the concession. Concession prices rose sky high, while the Tientsin American Chamber...