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Liberal Supporter. What other Japanese groups support the Alliance is not .clear. "The manifesto mentions only Yukio Ozaki. ... He is called the 'greatest liberal statesman.' " Ozaki, now about 90, is widely known in Japan as an independent in politics. He has been a lifelong advocate of Japanese collaboration with Russia. He supported this idea when Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas, continued to support it after the Bolsheviks came to power. In the 1942 Japanese elections he was so popular that the Government did not dare to void his candidacy, and the Supreme Court acquitted...
...India's summer capital, statesman ship and wisdom were on trial. For in Simla's viceregal lodge the momentous conference of Viceroy Lord Wavell and India's nationalist leaders was about to begin. At stake was the future of India and the Wavell Plan (TIME, May 21), leading to eventual Indian self-government...
...behind the stunt is jut-jawed Editor John W. McPherrin, whose theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
Under these restraints the leftists-and most of hungry, harassed Italy-chafed. U.S. and British policy had never seemed more out of touch with popular feeling. U.S. and British prestige had never seemed so low. Reported London's New Statesman & Nation: "Already a year ago the people were singing in the churches of southern Italy: "Et ab AMGOT libera nos, Domine-And from AMGOT deliver us, O Lord...
...John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant not a British statesman but a U.S. author (no kin) whose historical novels of early America (Richard Carvel, The Crisis, etc.) were best-sellers...