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...Baltic States have been a specific point of issue in Russian discussions with the Allies. Renner's plan served as a trial balloon on this issue, and the howl that went up against Renner, especially on the part of small governments-in-exile, served warning that, if the large-state idea prevails after World War II, the green table of peace will rock...
They tried, instead, to reform the election laws so that Japan's universal manhood suffrage would be supplanted by votes for no one except family heads and military reservists. This "reform" would have disfranchised some 2,000,000 voters, including many unwarlike Japanese, both liberals & conservatives. A howl rose in Diet circles. Finally, in January 1941, a political bargain was struck. The Government dropped its electoral-reform scheme, extended the term of the current lower house for a year, promised not to press legislation which would have increased Japan's economic totalitarianism. In return, the Diet agreed...
...content to spend his Sundays drably in sedate strolls or in solemn indoor sportlessness. He wants everyone else to be Sunday-drab, too. And for soldiers who are working like horses six days a week to save the wowser and his friends from the Jap, that is something to howl about...
...policy even better than it did 80 years ago. The final paragraph marked a new high in the Colonel's coupon-clipping from the Tribune's Lincolnian inheritance. Declared Medill: "We bid our contemporaries, then, who would rather be victorious over THE TRIBUNE than over Jeff Davis, howl on. . . . We go our own way, at our own time, in our own manner, in company of our own choosing, knowing as we do that vindication will be sure to follow. We can afford to be honest, and fearless, and to wait...
...ships snarled past, grinned at the star cockades on their fuselages. Few minutes later they heard some joyful sounds. Less than 15 miles north of the front line, over the wrecked naval station at Olongapo on Subic Bay, the P-4Os peeled out of formation, and the howl of their engines rolled down the peninsula. The men on the ground could hear the crump of bombs, the clatter of .50-caliber guns. From the mountaintops, outposts saw the P-40s whip up from the attack, roll over, dive again & again. Then smoke began to rise, great billowing clouds...