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...newsmen. The implication that Hitler and Mussolini wanted him out-first advanced by Henry Wallace, offered last week by Governor Lehman-now had more than tacit sanction of the President himself. Wallace had been reproved by many people and Lehman's repetition by still more (said Oswald Garrison Villard, "It seems to me that your declaration that a vote for Willkie will be a vote for Hitler . . . touches the low-water mark of unfair, unjust and intolerable partisanship . . . playing upon passions and prejudices which you ought to be the last man in the State of New York...
Drang Nach Süden. Adolf Hitler knew that a winter campaign in the South would have several advantages. His people and Army were both becoming restive for new triumphs. Of 212 divisions in all, probably not over 60 were useful to garrison the conquered territories. All the rest-about 150-might as well be put to some use. There were three things Germany very much wanted to get at: the oil fields of Iran and Iraq, which could supply Germany's major shortage; Gibraltar, one of the keys to British sea power; and Dakar, a place of many...
...Langson, in violation of the agreement, Japanese forces crossed the Chinese frontier and attacked the garrison. Ordered to withhold fire, the 6,000 French Foreign Legionnaires and native troops had permitted themselves to be surrounded by the Japanese, who then attacked from all sides. One thousand were killed or wounded, 2,000, including a brigadier general, were taken prisoner and 3,000 escaped by fleeing unarmed into the jungle. Pro-Japanese guerrilla bands were reported to have recaptured 30 Frenchmen and killed them slowly. "The Japanese herded us together like cattle," reported an escaped Legionnaire. "Some had cover but most...
...Japan's South China Army gave the French garrison at Dong Dang notice that they were moving in. It was not clear whether the Dong Dang garrison had heard about that afternoon's agreement, but in any case the agreement specified that Japanese troops should enter by the port of Haiphong, not by the China border. The French decided to resist. In a two-hour skirmish the French suffered about 100 casualties...
Onetime editor-owner of The Nation, lifetime liberal, Oswald Garrison Villard appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to argue that third terms are a bad thing and all Presidents are greedy for them. His prime example: "Despite President Coolidge's 'I do not choose to run,' he threw himself on his bed in an agony of disappointment and was unapproachable for two days after the news reached him that Mr. Hoover had been nominated...