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...effort to avoid the difficulty just mentioned. Success in such a policy will require inexhaustible forbearance and finesse, more than can be expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl will act as a toothless front for Japanese control. This has succeeded, so far, in Manchuria...
...will bear watching, for the West is coming into its own and Henry Wallace has become dear to the farmer's hearts. Earle, by birth and rearing a political carbon copy of Roosevelt, has neither the former's personality, ability nor integrity. His labor record in Pennsylvania discloses an opportunist of the first water, and an opportunist who has much to learn. To start a third term boom three years and five months before such an issue becomes pressing is the work of a bungler and reveals that Earle probably never passed his entrance examinations to the Roosevelt-Farley school...
Given these three premises, opportunist Japan promptly drew her conclusion by invading China while the invading was better than it may be later, bad and bloody though...
...Destroyer." Litvinoff "Papa"'; Lenin, after trying various signatures such as "Meyer" and "Petroff," became the "Old Man." Lenin's organizing ability, implacable common sense and long view gradually put him in control of the majority (Bolsheviks) in the organization. His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian." "I know, I know it very well, I never forget this, but that is the tragedy (I promise you 'tragedy' is not too strong a word!) of our position; that we have to act in such a way . . . after all we are not creating...
Kawagoe to a tete-a-tete, told him in good round terms that the Japanese Government must withdraw its marines from the Shantung seaport, release its Chinese prisoners, restore the stolen Chinese documents. When opportunist Ambassador Kawagoe suggested that instead he and Foreign Minister Chang should discuss "broad Sino-Japanese problems." General Chang frostily replied: "Continuance of negotiations are useless while Japanese forces remain ashore in Tsingtao and while your Government continues to back the Mongols and Manchukuoans attacking Suiyuan" (TIME...