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Successful representative government, even on the national level, requires general agreement on certain broad policies and a faith on the part of the governed that, no matter who exercises power, the structure of the government and the liberties of the subject will remain intact. In the international sphere this area of agreement is simply non-existant. A common desire for peace is not enough. It is fantastic to think that the United States, Britain, Russia, or China would submit to a majority approved policy which conflicted with an important national interest. The world is not yet ready to conduct...
...roused once more all the opponents of any kind of military influence. Said Chairman McMahon: "This [military] committee would have the power to interpret its own sphere of interest and activity . . . obstruct the work of the commission" unless the commission followed the military's policies...
...third and largest network, for general listening, was overhauled from ground to aerial. This included station JOAK (Radio Tokyo), whose 150,000-watt transmitter is one of the world's strongest. Out went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian...
...said Stalin, Churchill "rudely and shamelessly libels not only Moscow" but her neighbors, in making such a statement. Germany had been able to overrun all these countries while they were "inimical to the Soviet Union." Russia wanted to protect them and herself by bringing them into her own safe sphere, and "how can one, without having lost one's reason, qualify these peaceful aspirations . . . as 'expansionist tendencies...
...position was weakened by the embarrassing fact of Franco. Geographically and historically Fascist Spain was a responsibility of the Atlantic powers. If they could not get rid of the anachronism in Madrid, time might bring an opportunity for renewed Russian intervention, far to the west of the present Russian sphere...