Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were now going through wooded mountains, which must appear wild and sad to one coming from a gorgeous fruitful country; attractive only for the inner content of their womb...
...tacitly understood boundaries of Greater East Asia include Japan, Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, The Netherlands East Indies. The next step, about which many young Japanese speak frankly, is to delete the word East: establish Japanese hegemony over Greater Asia, meaning the Philippines, Burma, India, Australia. The strategic problem of attaining the first of these objectives appears on the map which occupies the following two pages...
Said Gandhi: "I would declare my heresies and be shot. ... I should ask you to declare your views against Japan and in so doing make Japan live through your death. But, for this, inner conviction is necessary." Said Kagawa: "The conviction is there. But friends have been asking me to desist." Said Gandhi, knowing nothing of doing nothing except on the advice of friends: "Don't listen to friends when the friend inside you says 'Do this.' " Purge. First victim of the new nation alist purge in Japan last week was the Salvation Army. After dismissing...
Among the impatient mourners were not only businessmen, 23 of whom (and 15 corporations) were indicted for Sherman Act violations last week. There were also farmers, labor leaders, even New Dealers -especially those inner circlers who are trying to help (or steer) the Defense Advisory Commission in rearming the U. S. A maverick New Dealer, Thurman Arnold necessarily regards the Defense Commission as his natural enemy. It stands for more cooperation among businessmen than he trusts, reminds him unpleasantly of NRA; besides, it may do him out of a job. This week, as Washington's defense parade threatened...
Thus having spoken, De Rougemont flogs the daylights out of contemporary conceptions of marriage, of happiness, of romantic love. In a last chapter whose eloquence becomes all but desperate, he expounds his personal solution : a marriage in which fidelity is observed neither for love, money nor hope of inner reward but "by virtue of the absurd," that is, by virtue alone of having taken oath to it. Right or raving, De Rougemont's reasoning is often ingenious, always arresting, fascinating in detail...