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Snarling at Russia's flanks, two jackals last week tried to muster courage to spring for the kill. Big Russia was bleeding from wounds made by Nazi fangs, but there was enough fight in the old bear to frighten Japan and Bulgaria. Benito Mussolini, who has got used to being called a jackal, must have grinned at their behavior...
...dramatic action. Although the hard-headed soldiers who run Japan knew better than to bind themselves to any oversimple, irrevocable decision of action, the courses open to them were few-and all dangerous. They included: 1) a new major campaign in China, 2) a southward drive, 3) a jackal attack on the rear of the Soviet Union while Germany drains Russian strength in the west. Best...
Then he turned the full force of his scorn on Germany's partner: "This whipped jackal, Mussolini, who to save his own skin made all Italy a vassal State of Hitler's Empire, comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger with yelpings not only of appetite . . . but even of triumph." A realist as always when he meets reversals, Churchill minced no words in describing Britain's peril. "You know I never try to make out that defeats are victories. . . . It is certain that fresh dangers . . . may come upon us in the Mediterranean...
Last week it seemed unlikely that Stalin ("quaking in his Kremlin," said Bill Bullitt, "too weak, morally and physically, to win even a jackal's victory over corpses") was still laughing. But there were few who wanted to argue that U. S. production was flowing as well as it could, that the maximum U. S. strength was behind U. S. arming and aid to democracies, that U. S. morale was all that it should be. Sharper than most, the Bullitt speech fitted into the vast literature of warning and appeal that has filled the U. S. since World...
...last week bellicose Italian yelps had begun to sound like those of a hungry jackal that wants to feed but is kept from his prey by a wolf. All week long the tension mounted. Italian liners' sailings were canceled. Italian schools were ordered to close May 31, a month earlier than usual. Crown Prince Umberto went over to the belligerent side in a speech to his troops warning them to be ready. Benito Mussolini topped off a Sunday of checking up on military preparations by appearing before several hundred Fascist youths demonstrating for war. Italy...