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...crop of paid advertisements announcing a "Plebiscite of Peace." Its 120 founder-signers, among whom patriotic Nacionalistas were sinisterly mingled with notorious Nazionalistas, invited all-&-sundry to sign a monster "Album of Peace" to be ceremoniously presented to shrewd old Vice-President-in-the-Exercise-of-the-Executive-Power Ramón S. Castillo. Doubtless these publicity shenanigans amused that dry-humored politico; but what really pleased him was the more genuine peace plebiscite of recent congressional elections...
This was the extent of Nazi influence on Japanese fighting. The Germans did not ram anything down Yamashita's throat. He asked for advice. Intelligently he sought a better way. Flexibly he applied it. In his ability to learn the lessons of a quick war quickly, Tomoyuki Yamashita proved himself a very good soldier...
...Packard employe had nine traffic and 14 plant accidents in five years. The foreman found him a hothead who liked to ram drivers he saw violating traffic regulations, a fast worker with excess time for practical jokes (which often backfired). Switched to a responsible maintenance position, his traffic and plant accident scores dropped abruptly...
British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare, interviewing Spanish Foreign Minister Ramón Serano Suñer twice in two days, tried to counterpoise his own influence to that of the German Ambassador. But probably the military strategy of the Axis (see p.12), and not diplomatic conversations, would determine the duration of peace in Spain...
...Government of Conservative President Ramón S. Castillo impartially banned meetings of the pro-British Acción Argentina, the left-wing Forja and nationalist groups. Police fueled planes to rush reinforcements wherever needed...