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...barrels she uses each year. Her reserves, if any, are relatively small, her actual and potential domestic production insufficient. Unless Japan's sword-rattlers want to give up the profession of war entirely, they must soon fight, not for the Emperor or Co-Prosperity, but simply and inevitably...
...Ypiranga near Sao Paulo, Brazil's Prince Regent Pedro received a batch of dispatches from Portugal telling of oppressive measures planned for the colony. Then & there Prince Pedro uttered what Brazilians now call the Grito de Ypiranga: "Independence or death!" He revolted against his father the Emperor, declared Brazil independent, became its first monarch, Dom Pedro I. Although Brazil later overthrew his son, Dom Pedro II, and became a republic, Brazilians this week celebrated the 119th anniversary of their independence with as little animosity toward Portugal as U.S. citizens now feel toward Great Britain on the Fourth of July...
...Cambodia, Sisowath's nephew, lighted a fire under Sisowath's bodily remains and incinerated them. An elegantly robed and uniformed audience made obeisance. Among them were French Indo-China's Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux, who used to rule over Sisowath, and a Japanese General representing Emperor Hirohito, who now rules over Governor General Decoux...
...historian has always been to make the dullest periods of history as fresh as a newspaper. The Reconstruction of Europe is in part a lively resuscitation of the Congress of Vienna from corridors, back rooms and boudoirs. The Austrian secret police dogged everybody at the Congress where Emperor Francis I played host, and their reports, meticulously preserved by the Habsburgs whose motto was never to throw a piece of paper away, have a narrative verve and unvarnished realism which are a Ferrero specialty...
...embodies England's compromise of classes is the King. They have turned the rose beds at Windsor Castle into vegetable gardens. Queen Elizabeth practices sharpshooting. George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, dodges bombs, eats by ration card, works some 20 hours a day. He is Defender of the Faith in a deeper sense, says Author Kraus, "than his ancestors and predecessors in a thousand years of British Monarchy." For "the war has transformed King and nation alike. . . . He is not only...