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...There was no more talk of burning Japan's papier-mâché cities; some, like Nagoya or Osaka, never modernized (as was Tokyo after the 1923 earthquake), might be fired by overs or shorts intended for factories on their outskirts. If so, it would be incidental. After aircraft factories, highest priority targets would be shipyards, power plants and steel mills. But there was nothing rigid about the plan for bombing Japan or about the thinking of those who were doing the planning...
Hattie Carnegie finally relented last week, closed a discreet curtain on the photographic blowup of limbless men, leaving only the papier-mâché model in the wheel chair to remind her customers of War Loan...
...Germans' Hollywoodish Balkan empire was collapsing like a papier...
Refuge. The Parnikovs, a couple of papier-mâché old guard aristocrats, took her in. They turned against her when she visited their daughter Lilian, a long-nosed, ugly, attractive whore who lived with a killer for the secret police. "He is dreadful," said the old people. "He wears a shamelessly new leather coat, lives in scandalous plenty-she told me they even had meat and wine and sugar, and he shoots people by the dozen. They have no home life...
...have had enough of diplomatic appeasement and apologies for it, enough of "Little Steel formulas" made of papier-mâché, enough of "States' Rights" shouted from astride pork barrels. . . . We are fed up with weak-kneed Administrations, Congresses, political parties (both of them). Give us even so much as one individual in all those places who will follow the policy of frankness and confidence, and he can have anything America can give. Remember that all political power still is delegated by the people. And they take away. The people know exactly what they want...