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Unhappy too were Nisei, the 79,642 native-born citizens of the U.S. who are descendants of Japanese. Said a young Nisei with yellow skin, slant eyes, and a college education: "Over there I'd be a coolie. Over here...I have enough money to own a car, I can talk to any man. Over here, by God, we believe enough in what we have to fight Japan." But panic was in his heart. Would other U.S. citizens know the difference...
...Manuel Quezon wanted it made unanimous. Only three parties were allowed on the ballot: Quezon's Nationalist Party; the Popular Front Party of sick, old Juan Sumulong; and the small radical Ganap Party, whose pro-Japanese founder is in jail. Running with Quezon was his Vice President, tall, slant-eyed Sergio Osmeña, whose popularity in the Philippines is equal to the President's. Every one of the 122 Nacionalista candidates for the Senate and the Assembly was hand-picked by Quezon, who shuffled them as a bridge player shuffles cards while the campaign went...
...about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen, above all, Cana da is a unit of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...Greene that we'll Seymour score under the H than under the Y," gloomily assented the slant eyed New Havenster. "Just what do you pick for the score...
...rest would have been "routine." The long screaming run down the airport as the plane labored to lift its heavy load of gasoline. The plane-hungry bogs around the airport giving way to the long swells of the Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward above the overcast for a tailwind and air too cold and dry for icing. The navigator's intent face reflected from the cabin windows as he read his sextant. The creeping cold of high altitude. The bulbous oxygen masks...