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The 77th Extraordinary Session of the Imperial Diet bowed itself into history on Nov. 21, 1941. The world then saw no hint in the reported proceedings of an event scheduled for Dec. 7. Later the double-talk about "immutable resolution" and "exhaustible patience" proved to have great meaning.
"The war has reached a decisive stage. . . . The enemy must be destroyed. . . . The situation in Attu was . . . very regrettable. ... It depressed his Imperial Majesty a little. It is Japan's immutable policy to .free Greater Asia from agelong Anglo-Saxon domination. . . . Enemy plans for a counteroffensive have been foreseen...
Joshi's Program. Monocled Jinnah, with his Bond Street clothes, his rich palace at Bombay and his Moslem belief in violence, has gained power through reviving the Moslems' vanished pride in their onetime imperial greatness and through brilliantly, if not always logically, espousing Moslem grievances against the Hindus...
The Golden Age. British bankers and statesmen of the 19th Century were the first to establish a world-wide money system. After they had digested the severe lesson of the American Revolution, they largely abandoned the closed system that had previously characterized their imperial efforts and those of the Spaniards...
Washington this week was the center of the Allied world. In the map-paneled rooms of strategic war councils such men as Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell, British Commander in Chief in India, U.S. Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Britain's Chief of the Imperial General...