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...tickets will be: Republicans-C. Wayland Brooks v. Warren Wright and Ralph E. Church; Democrats-Raymond S. McKeough v. Paul Douglas. These names meant only one thing in a year of war and peril-that politics-as-usual dominated Illinois...
...Imperial Military Staff College was interrupted shortly before World War I by an order to go to Germany and have a look around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics), who had met Yamashita in Japan in 1908 and now befriended him, publicly accoladed the Japanese as "the Prussians...
...answer the fears of Canadians who share the U.S. people's frustration. It was a soft answer. In a broadcast to Canada, the President praised the Dominion's war effort, called what Canadians have done "the achievements of a great nation." Said the President: "There is peril ahead for us all, and sorrow for many. But our cause is right...
...Supreme Command's first responsibility to the Allies would be to repair the Malayan damage and save Singapore. General Pownall's first responsibility to the Supreme Command was to describe Malaya's peril, with which he had had brief but concentrated acquaintance, and to recommend steps to be taken. The steps would have to be taken in haste, for the situation as he described it was alarming: on the west coast the Japanese were within 270 miles of Singapore, on the east coast within 175 miles...
...fate of Kuala Lumpur, gateway to Singapore and rubber capital of the world, remained in doubt. Though it obviously was in grave peril from the Japanese thrust down from the Slim River, available reports implied that it was still in British hands...