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...recent Japanese cabinet upheaval, which tossed out procrastinating Prince Konoye because of his "failure to reach an understanding with the United States" and gave military and political power to General Eiki Tojo, has set the stage for further aggression whenever Nippon feels the time is ripe. The island is now completely dominated by the military extremists, advocates of total war mobilization in the Pacific and close cooperation with the Nazis. Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo even has a German wife. However, the new cabinet has not committed itself to a definite program but will probably watch developments in Eastern Russia very...
...March when his regent uncle Prince Paul abdicated rather than fight the Nazis. There was no birthday fete in German-held Belgrade. Instead, exiled King Peter, a slim soft-spoken boy whose dearest wish is an R.A.F. commission, celebrated quietly in England, told reporters he thought the time was ripe for a British invasion of Italy...
...dozen were members of the Yale Unit, a little band of athletic youngsters who wanted to enter aviation. The time was ripe. In 1917 the U.S. ranked 14th in air power in the world and the U.S. Naval Air Force consisted of 38 pilots and 54 airplanes (none of the 54 really suitable for service even in the war of 25 years...
Last week, also, Marshal Pétain showed himself an increasing master of dictatorial double talk. Addressing his Council of State, from whom he demanded an oath of allegiance, he pronounced such ripe ambiguities as: "Since the day when, by the irresistible force of circumstances more than by will, and above all, my own, I was placed at the head of the State, I have multiplied appeals to common sense, to reason and to the notion of public interest...
...have entered the period of self-liquidation of Utopias and doctrines. Not until this process is complete shall we be ripe for a truly conservative order resulting from the synthesis of all our traditional and historic elements. We are in the midst of the liquidation of the doctrines of nationalism, socialism, rationalism, and liberalism and of the demarcation of the boundaries within which they are serviceable and constructive influences...