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...collapse of the Western Front in 1940 ushered in the opposition's darkest hour in the war period.... Men and women who for years had worked in the Underground gave up their organizational connections. . . . 'Our attitude toward the Nazis and toward the regime has not changed one iota,' but what...
...exchange ship Asama Maru, on the first leg of his homeward trip to Washington. The 62-year-old Ambassador's unhappiness was made plain in quotations from a speech which he had delivered to his Embassy staff in Tokyo on May 30. Said he: "I have not an iota of doubt of our ultimate victory in this war of nations. I myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after an earthquake and fire, the ruins of a great building...
Only time could fairly judge the complex Indian cases. But neither Japan nor the British people had time to waste. Unless every possible iota of Indian strength and spirit were called on, a day might soon come when Britain's Captains and Kings would depart from India, and the fire of Britain's power and glory would sink, perhaps forever, from India's dunes and headlands...
...exact wake of the Communist Party. For 40 days A.P.M. pickets had paraded before the White House, protesting aid to Britain-purely in the interests of peace. When A.P.M. gave up picketing as futile just before Germany attacked Russia, it did not recede from its stand one iota. But last week, after Russia was attacked, A.P.M. came forth with a vast new credo: an embargo on Japan, all-out aid to almost everyone, including Great Britain, China and-er-the Soviet Union...
...different field the "academic discipline" of any given area. There will almost certainly be a rush, as there was in the 'twenties and 'thirties, into the notorious snaps in any of the given areas. Passing one of these unscientific sciences or "cultural" language courses will not contribute an iota toward the liberal education that is the ultimate aim of distribution. The only way to avoid these difficulties is to provide the broad area surveys which the Faculty has approved in theory but shelved indefinitely. No difficulties, either the piddling ones of content or the more potent one of finances, should...