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...Matsuoka resigned from the Service. Some said he found diplomatic discipline galling to his lone-cat temperament, his American education a liability in a service dominated by Tokyo Imperial University graduates. True to form, he reappeared on a higher rung five months later, as director, later president, of that octopus, the South Manchuria Railway. The South Manchuria Railway was no mere private enterprise; half its money was Government money, its policies were the Government's. The Railway not only controlled some 1,300 kilometers of railroad, but operated steamships, harbors, coal mines, shale-oil plants, ironworks, chemical-fertilizer plants...
Last winter, when the British were strangling the Italians all over Africa, the many-tentacled octopus of Empire worked hard for Britain. But last week, its tired tentacles grappling desperately in many directions, the octopus' weakness was too apparent...
...safari is forced to rest-hoping to regain their strength with generous helpings of wart-hog stew." When a group of savages are arguing in their native tongue, very liberal English translations appear at the bottom of the screen. When Crosby tries to argue Hope into wrestling the octopus, he explains : "I'm trying to make you famous-people will write books about you." Cracks Hope: "Well, I know three words that won't be in 'em-'ripe old age.' " Bing-of-all-Trades. Road to Zanzibar is not a 100% movie. That...
This time Crosby and Hope are a footsore carnival combination working their way through Africa. Hope, as Fearless Frazier, a harassed stooge who has to be shot from a cannon or wrestle an octopus, wants to get home to Birch Falls, Iowa. Crosby always interrupts the plan with a new enterprise. Before it is over, they take a safari through the jungle with Dorothy Lamour and Una Merkel, almost get eaten by cannibals...
...Axis last week was locked in struggle to death with an octopus: the British Empire. More than any week in the war the long tentacles of empire wrapped, the complexity wriggled, and the small eyes in the compact head stared defiance. In Libya the Axis fought against Australians, the tough colonists of empire (see p. 22), and against Free Frenchmen, auxiliary believers in empire (see p. 24). In Eritrea the Axis fought against imperial experience, which used religion as a weapon (see p. 22). In Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland, the Axis faced black men as well as white...