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In its opposition tot he extension for the draft beyond one year, in its unwillingness to allow any draftees to be sent overseas, even in its reluctance over the original draft bill, Congress has consistently set political opportunism against military necessity. While claiming to speak for its constituents, it has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cutting the Apron-Strings | 11/5/1942 | See Source »

One Japanese who has good reason to loathe Japan's ruling militarists is handsome Ken Inukai, 53, four times a Diet member. In 1932 a group of young officers murdered his 77-year-old father, Premier Ki Inukai, potent Seiyukai Party leader, whose wily political opportunism brought him the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ki's Son Ken | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

In a time of crisis such as England has not known since 1066, Dr. Temple is the right man to head the Church. He was one of the very few British leaders bold enough and clear-sighted enough to denounce the surrender at Munich promptly and openly. He condemned Neville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: York to Canterbury | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Typical of their desperate opportunism were the landings they made below British lines on the west coast-in waters which ought to have been British right to the bottom. When they took Penang intact, they gathered all the barges, junks, launches, yachts and sampans in sight and set off, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Report on a Grimness | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

This would be the final irony of Foreign Minister Matsuoka's opportunism.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: So Delicate Situation | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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