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...conferred had heard one another's opinions on this problem more times than they cared to remember. There was one inescapable fact: the U.S. was adamant in its embargo. There was another: Germany was urgent for action. The echo of her terrible armies thunder ing at the gates of Moscow beat louder & louder in Tokyo. It caused the blood of warriors to race. But Prince Konoye refused to assume responsibility for a break with the U.S. The Army had opposed Prince Konoye for months, the Navy had supported him. Last week the Navy suddenly turned, declared itself "itching...
Sensitive to the grinding strain of the nation's economy, the Cabinet that had sponsored the negotiations hoped desperately that the U.S. might grant Japan an eleventh-hour reprieve. Squeezed now by the Allied embargo on scrap iron and iron ore (she imports two-thirds of her steel industry's raw materials), and on oil (she imports 93% of her oil), Japan also faced an extraordinarily poor rice harvest, a subnormal fishing catch...
There were several important differences between August's rush and September's. Last month's shopping spree was touched off by the Government's embargo on silk for women's stockings and panties (TIME, Aug. 18). It spread to a score of goods and gadgets which householders feared might soon be cut off by the war. Sales of electrical appliances rose 129% over August 1940-neck & neck with the jump of 134% in hosiery. Refrigerator sales leaped 121%. Piano sales went up 58%. . . . September came, and August's boom petered...
...left? Last year members of the Psychology Department, on the track of meat for class-room consumption, constituted themselves into a committee, presumably impartial, to study distortion of news in eight Boston newspapers. Equipped with rulers and calculating machines, the psychologists chose the fight over repeal of the Arms Embargo last fall as an issue suitable for study and began to add inches. To no one's great surprise, most of the dailies were found all too innocent of objectivity, the cardinal virtue in journalism. John Q. Public, who rarely reads editorials, could nevertheless grasp editorial policy through the news...
...fall a Faculty vs. students lineup which was to last for the rest of the year was apparent. Under the distinguished leadership of President Conant, the majority of the Faculty came out vehemently first for the repeal of the arms embargo and then for all aid to the Allies. The majority of the student groups remained in the isolationist camp and only a few sided openly with their teachers...