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...position of the British Raj in the Indian civil-disobedience campaign was summed up by a man in New Delhi: "You Americans think that we are sitting on top of a powder keg. We're not. We're sitting on an anthill. We may get ants in our pants, but we'll ride it out." Committed to smashing the power of the Indian National Congress party, the Raj cracked down harder than before...
...last hundred years is a history of the attempt to explode this bomb by bringing together the detonator and powder charge. "The detonator is composed of the militaristic peoples that have for centuries dominated or attempted to dominate Europe. ... To the militarist the resources of the Asiatic powder keg mean more than generalities. . . . The manpower of this continent has great military significance. . . . Every battalion of natives that a Hitler could raise in Asia would release a battalion of German riflemen for one of the mechanical arms. . . ." Until the days of mechanized armies, says Kiralfy, the problem of invading Asia...
When Jinx left, there was a mad stampede toward the Common Room and beer. One table and innumerable spectators were trampled in the dust. One intelligent Yardling came fortified with peach brandy; while about 25 others joined in kidapping a whole keg of brew...
CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U.P.)--Japan is sitting on a huge powder keg whose tremendous forces could wreak more destruction throughout the island empire than all the bombing planes in the world, according to Dr. Helmut Landsberg, University of Chicago seismologist...
...compunction about spooning the aggressors full of the same bitter medicine Hitler is prescribing today. Yet in the long run, Americans have no interest in a policy of revenge. The eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-tooth principle of justice will add explosive to a future European powder-keg, and our only permanent interest in Europe is peace. The one nation distant enough and strong enough to enforce a just peace is the United States, and we have committed ourselves to a program the practical result of which is domination and whose eventual outcome may be yet another...