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...Italia, came out with what might be termed a one-for-you-two-for-me proposal. This organ of the Axis stated that if the United States declared war on Japan, the war machines of Germany and Italy would be pointed our way. The paper suggested that we should grab off a few countries, or possessions of other countries, instead of meddling in the affairs of poor old Japan, who is only looking out for her people by taking over a few small islands in the Pacific and all of China. In other words, the United States should sneak...
...those days Hollywood was rather colorful, because nobody took off his makeup at night, and everybody walked up & down the streets at night dressed like Napoleon, and did their business. And we used to wait to get a call . . . and when we got the call we would grab a sand wagon and go to Universal, which was the popular studio at that time...
...week, when a show of Raemaekers' drawings, old & new, was opened in Manhattan's Holland House gallery, he said: "People say I hate the Germans. I do not hate the Germans, I know them. You can trust them just so long as there is nothing they can grab from you; so soon as you have something they want and the opportunity comes for them, then it is all over. When you [the U. S.] wait until the English are beaten, then it is too late...
...Monroe Doctrine. This he got, in the Convention of Havana, which sets up the machinery to seize and administer any European possessions in this hemisphere which are threatened with transfer of sovereignty. But Cordell Hull also wanted Pan-American sanction in case the U. S. finds it necessary to grab a colony or so before the Convention goes into effect. He got that too, in an emergency resolution...
Having made his grab of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania legal if not altogether convincing by a "Vote Da!" plebiscite, Joseph Stalin last week continued to nibble at the North. He persuaded Finland to yield a strategic, half-mile-wide strip of land in the Jääski region, north of Viipuri, and promised to return a similar patch elsewhere. More important, he exacted the right to transport military material across Finland. For the time being, this right was to be exercised only in fortifying the Russian treaty port of Hanko; but Finns-and Swedes as well-knew that...