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...first time wrong is done and the precedent established, it may be done by a good man with the best of intentions; but the precedent is established, and in future years that precedent will be used by the demagogue and the rascal to perform his tricks and to fool the public. . . . [Permitting a President unlimited tenure] would mean-not perhaps in my lifetime, or it may be not in the lifetime of anyone here-but it would mean ultimately the establishment in this country of a monarchy upon the ruins of our present republican form of government...
...awful lot of fun directing it, and acting in it, too. For from start to finish it is obvious that no one went out of his way to be consistent or convincing. And a production that allows the writer's imagination to ramble without restraint, and lets the director fool around with all manner of disconnected dramatic scenes, and that gives William Powell and Hedy Lamar a chance to clinch at random, and everyone a chance to act at will could hardly be anything but fun for those on the Hollywood side of the screen. From this side, however...
Office Soldier. Itagaki matured in an army which was singularly selfless, yet afforded wide scope to men of his particular stamp. He was not a great fighting man. In fact, in 1938 at the famed battle of Taierhchwang (TIME, April 11, 1938 et ante), the Chinese made a military fool of him, trapping his forces and killing 25,000 Japanese in a battle which may yet go down as one of the determining conflicts of history...
...Fool and His Power. Thus does Seishiro Itagaki preach the possibilities and rewards of North Asian conquest. For this he has prepared his Kwantung army. Now he weighs the coming of August and September, the two months of all the year when climate along the border best favors assault. Now, if ever, Russia is weak...
From Manchukuo and Itagaki, no word of intention came. No word will come, unless it be the word of attack. General Itagaki knows well an old Japanese proverb: "Anyone is a fool if he has power and shows...