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Historians always and novelists never forget that statesmen's worries are not exclusively those of the commonweal. Last week there came from France the story of a private tragedy which was nothing to the national tragedy but which touched French hearts...
...foreign policy," said the Premier after thinking for a long time, "will be renovated." Everyone knew what he meant. Other less discreet Cabinet Ministers had indulged in a chorus of blatantly tough speeches. Japan, like Italy, was aboard the bandwagon of triumph, and for the first time Japanese statesmen openly aired their fantastic ambitions. Kobayashi (Commerce) declared: "A high degree of State efficiency must be achieved through hitching ourselves to the Italo-German Axis." Yasui (Home & Welfare) boasted: "We cannot doubt that the day will soon come when Japan can share the world with Germany and Italy...
...enabling all the progressive forces of England to take control and the born leaders to lead, and of relegating to obscurity those who have prepared Hitler, Mussolini and Franco and not prepared anything else. Each country gets the fifth column it deserves; had we interned in time our Elder Statesmen, we would not be locking up our Fascists today...
...today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen), who at 90 is almost a demigod. Prince Konoye is one of a handful who can come & go at the Imperial Household at will, and can sprawl in a chair before the Emperor. He is said to be the only man in Japan who has said no, pointblank, to Hirohito...
...downward spiral, beginning with the retreat from Moscow. To Joseph Stalin the Ribbentrop message sounded like the prelude to a typical Hitlerian workup: complaints, proposals, demands, threats, action. Communist Joseph Stalin is mortally afraid of National Socialist Adolf Hitler, but he knows one truth that Europe's other statesmen learned too late: that Hitler respects strength alone. He set out to give a demonstration...