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...derricks, in fields which alone produce many times as much oil as Japan consumes. Around them lay the exotic square miles of California, in itself almost twice as big as the mainland of Japan. If the envoy was impressed, he did not show it. Behind his American-made Ful-Vue glasses his agate eyes were expressionless...
...days when the Reichswehr maneuvered with the "defensive" weapons allowed them by Versailles, "but everybody knows they've got the rest-tanks, heavy artillery and probably airplanes." Those were the days of the Saar plebiscite; the winter Olympic games ("On the whole the Nazis have done a wonder ful propaganda job."); the Hitler peace speeches ("We have no territorial demands to make in Europe! . . . Germany will never break the peace...
...unprepared to execute the moral mission to which the President calls us." He saw the duty of the U. S. : to "show the world a nation clear in purpose, united in action, and sacrificial in spirit. The influence of that example upon suffering humanity everywhere will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly, just as the cries of warmonger had risen after the testimony of the Cabinet officers the week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan...
Meanwhile, the Crimson football squad drove hard all afternoon trying to acquire the final licks of polish necessary to make its offense click against the Elis. In addition, Harvard regulars got another eye-ful of Yale plays as interpreted by a motley crew--five coaches, a sprinkling of Jayvees, and some subs. As usual, Wes Fesler occupied the featured role in the Blue backfield...
...siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole ful wail which depresses all but the most stouthearted...