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...five long years Japanese military factions, seeking to emulate the style of Hitler and Mussolini . . . have been wandering about that vast land [China] in futile excursions, carrying with them carnage, ruin and corruption, and calling it 'the Chinese incident.' Now, they stretch a grasping hand into the southern seas of China. They snatch Indo-China from the wretched Vichy French. They menace . . . Siam . . . Singapore . . . and the Philippine Islands...
...Marshal Pétain's speech also eloquently emphasized, by inference, what has long been suspected-that French totalitarianism is meeting much more open internal resistance than Hitler or Mussolini has ever had to face. Last week some of that resistance led to violence. The Marshal railed against Big Business opposition to Vichy, but a vastly more general discontent could be heard between his lines...
...Looted" which the Nation published last week. It is by Ralph Kent, an American from Rome, N.Y. who was principal of Athens College. Mr. Kent reports that the Nazis stripped Greece of not only food, automobiles, bicycles and furniture, but carried off even doorknobs, locks & keys. Latest Nazi wrinkle: Mussolini sent 1,000 cases of milk to Greek babies who needed it desperately; ten cases were distributed, then the Nazis followed the old Nazi custom-"borrowed" the remaining...
...appeasement-minded Sir John Simon icily ignored it.) He proclaimed again & again that the U.S. would recognize no territorial gains based on conquest. At every turn in his career for 30 years Henry Stimson's attention was focused on the international scene. He not only got around, meeting Mussolini, Laval, the Sultan of Sulu and many another world character, he also consistently stuck to the view that the U.S. could not merely look inwardly to its own security, that it could not long remain safe in a world where aggressors were allowed to roam free...
Died. Bruno Mussolini, 23; in a bomber crash near Pisa...