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...Legionnaires in Milwaukee did other things: they drank thousands of barrels of free beer at the open-air bars of Schlitz, Pabst, Blatz, Miller and Gettelman breweries; lifted girls' skirts and stamped "O.K." on their thighs; goosed the citizenry either by hand or by newfangled mechanical devices; trickled water on feminine legs; stopped traffic by playing pinochle on streetcar tracks, in general caroused and roistered with all their old muscular humor...
...Netherlands East Indies the Japanese suddenly discovered a fresh wave of "anti-Japanese sentiment." This caused the Tokyo Government to deliver a strong note of protest to Netherlands Minister General J. C. Pabst. Since the Japanese have failed to get all the oil they want from the East Indies, this protest looked like the beginning of a new economic holdup. The Japanese have always considered it fair to shoot a recalcitrant holdup victim...
...list of six programs for the coming year includes, in addition to American comedy, German expressionist pictures, realistic movies of the German director Pabst and the Russian Pudovkin. French satire, and modern documentary films...
...Netherlands East Indies were apparently to be spared for the moment. But not forever. Just to remind the Dutch that Japan had not forgotten them, Vice Foreign Minister Tani called on Netherlands Minister to Tokyo J. C. Pabst, expressed appreciation of the trade concessions already made by the Indies, declared however they were not enough, asked for more, and in no uncertain terms suggested "the need for prompt compliance." Minister Pabst was prompt...
...Minister Eelco Nicholas van Kieffens, an extraordinarily thin man with big nose, little chin, thin hair, hollow eyes, called in Japan's Minister to The Netherlands Itaro Ishii and told him that The Netherlands Indies wanted no protection from anybody, thanks just the same. But meantime Jean Charles Pabst, Netherlands Minister to Japan, called on Mr. Arita to thank him for upholding the status quo. These contradictions were not the reaction Mr. Arita was most interested in hearing. That came two days later...