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Later, if not now, some Jap like Okada would have to emerge and show Japan the way to the end. That man might remind the Japanese of one of their proverbs: "To be beaten...
...conquer. The differences between India's Hindus (256 million) and India's Moslems (92 million) were more than religious; they were almost organic. Says Moslem Dr. Aziz of the Hindus in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India'. "I wish they did not remind me of cow dung." Britain was suspected of setting the Moslem League against the Hindus, slowly acquiring political maturity as the majority in the All-India National Congress. Against the caste Hindus she played the 40 million Untouchables, whose very shadow, to a high-caste Hindu, is defilement. Against both...
...sleep-lover, Scott once dozed while driving, and crashed into a North Chicago bungalow. To remind himself that sleep can be dangerous, he had an artist do a painting of the wreck, hung it in his office. A worrier, he devised ways to check on his salesmen's selling talks. One way: he hid microphones behind pictures and under display radios so that he could listen in on the sales spiel in the privacy of his rooftop office. He pioneered in the building of super-duper radios, sold them to wealthy householders for as much as $15,000 each...
...State), the President could choose his own successor. He did not believe that the President should have such power. The two Congressional leaders, he said, were more logical successors because they came closest to being elected by all the voters of the nation. He did not have to remind Congress that the present Secretary of State is young Ed Stettinius, a personable and energetic man, but neither an experienced nor an elected official...
...What did we lose, comrades? Is it necessary to remind me of the gulf between us and the capitalist world? On the other hand, there was Lend-Lease and there was a second front. It is not certain that we would have survived otherwise...