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...just don't believe we should expel all the Japanese aliens or Japanese-Americans because some of their number are disloyal any more than we should intern all those of German parentage because a portion of them belong to the Bund. I see no reason for falling victim to the racist doctrines of the fascists. From the observations I've made, I'm scarcely alone in taking this attitude. I can confidently say that there is no great cry for martial law on the West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...pronounce k and g; if he has no hard palate, he has trouble with t, d, n, r, 1; if he has a harelip, he cannot make the sounds p, m, f, v, w. Such people need surgical treatment, or perhaps a mechanical palate. Their main problem is to expel air through the mouth, not the nose. To learn this, they blow soap bubbles and rubber balloons, sometimes hold to their lips an "airflow indicator"-a gadget consisting of a wheel which revolves when air escapes from the mouth, a paper which flutters when air is exhaled from the nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why Stutter? | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

MADRID--Diplomatic reports from Berne tonight said that Germany may soon officially request Switzerland to expel all British nationals, including diplomats, within a certain fixed time, in the same manner that German and Italian nationals and diplomats were expelled from Syris, Iraq and Iran...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/3/1941 | See Source »

After this deed Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Grabs and Runs | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Democrat Whitaker accepted an Italian War Cross after reporting the Fascist conquest of Ethiopia, and Fascist bigwigs sorely embarrassed him by insisting that they had "nothing personal" against him, would not formally expel him. He demanded formal expulsion. Instead, red-faced John T. Whitaker was told with Italian finesse: "You are not expelled, but you must leave." Pressed, Italian officials finally set the time limit for Correspondent Whitaker's departure at "about ten days." To the credit of tall, slender, wavy-dark-brown-haired Oustee Whitaker is a recent realistic work Americas to the South (Macmillan; $2.50), which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nothing Personal | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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