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Japan has everything to lose if an outsider takes over this treasure trove. Loss of Dutch oil combined with a possible U. S. embargo would be mortal. On the other hand, taking The Netherlands Empire itself would at one stroke accomplish Japan's New Order. Instead of cowering before the threat of an oil embargo, she could herself threaten a rubber and tin embargo against the U. S. She would possess islands from which she could conveniently attack Singapore. She would be able to snip off Hong Kong, Indo-China, the Philippines from the Western World...
...plain that Sweden would not fight side by side with anybody against Germany, unless Germany forced her to do so. Sweden's cultural and economic ties with Germany are too strong for political differences to break, and she is bound even closer to Germany by her mortal dread of Russia...
...picture of them in the public mind. It was a powerful, melodramatic picture of simple, poetic-speaking, well-meaning, violent people, relentlessly harried by hard times, whose efforts to organize were smashed by vigilantes, whose will was not broken although all society was against them, all growers their mortal enemies...
...louse may be the greatest of war's horrors," the editorial opened. "By the disgust that it produces, by the sleeplessness that results from it, by the ubiquity of the skin lesions, and by the mortal disease [typhus fever] that it carries in its bite, it surpasses any. Because it is unremitting, the soldier dreads it more than artillery fire. . . . From the slow crawl of the louse over his body there is no respite. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow it will...
...Association's show drew 15,000 of Lincoln's 86,000 citizens. On the week's fourth day, 89-year-old Sarah Selleck Joslyn died in Joslyn Castle. Behind her, solid and pink, she left her marble gesture to the prairies, a reminder to other mortal Nebraskans not to be too proud...