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...moment, Japan's converted merchantmen may help to redress the balance of carrier power. But the U.S. is rapidly converting merchant ships into carriers; it is pushing a big program of regular carriers (eleven had been announced up to Dec. 7). And it is doing even more. Last fortnight, Rhode Island's Senator Peter Gerry put on the public record a hopeful and hitherto secret fact about U.S. carrier construction: "The Navy is converting to aircraft carriers a number of ships planned as cruisers. . . . You can imagine what will happen to the rest of the Japanese fleet when...
...other British face toward India has been liberal, reformist, seeking to redress imperialism's economic and personal ravages. Steadily through the years India has been championed by such Englishmen as Edmund Burke, who in 1788, speaking of the great Indian empire builder, Warren Hastings, said: "Was there ever heard, or could it be conceived, that a man would dare to mention the practices of all the villains, all the mad usurpers, all the thieves and robbers in Asia, that he should gather them all up, and form the whole mass of abuses into one code and call...
After the Russians were whipped. Japan seized Korea with her victorious army and told the world that Korea wished to become her protectorate. Korea was made a puppet like Manchukuo. Korea appealed to the powers who had treaty obligations with her to redress her grievances. Mute was their response. It was the beginning of tacitly appeasing the subtle aggressor. Finally, Japan again by force annexed Korea in 1910 and gracefully announced that the Emperor of Korea made complete and permanent cession to the Emperor of Japan of all rights of sovereignty over Korea and the Emperor of Japan consented...
...Mexican silver, under the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, jumped to $58,325,000 in 1935. Last year they dropped to $25,811,000. Silver is one of Mexico's chief exports. By agreeing to a long-range program of silver purchases, the U.S. will help to redress Mexico's unfavorable trade balance with...
...other two sermons, Bishop von Galen said that injustices in Germany cried to heaven for redress and that the country no longer had any law. He denounced Nazi use of euthanasia, revealing that many patients in his diocese had been taken away from asylums and put to death. He charged that the Ten Commandments were being violated with the knowledge and consent of all the national leaders-the first commandment by idolatry the fourth by the actions of the Hitler youth on the Sabbath, the seventh by authorities who encouraged soldiers to become "war fathers," the eighth by Naz leaders...