Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie, in & out of the Republican Party, had hammered long & hard at Isolation. He had more success out than in; a majority of G.O.P. leaders, unshaken by the lessons of World War II, held to the ostrich faith of their fathers that the U.S. must hold aloof from the outside world...
...more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that those which escaped had gone...
Marshal Petain's senile totalitarianism harked back fondly to the ancien regime. It was monarchical, clerical, aristocratic. The Marshal wanted to expunge the memory of the French Revolution. But while he felt that French totalitarianism depended largely on the success of Nazi totalitarianism, he did not want his neofeudal France to be a neo-vassal state of Germany's. He kept making this clear to Germany with his creaking stubbornness about the sanctity of the French Fleet and the African colonies...
When the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact passed its first anniversary last week, Tokyo noted the day in stony silence, Moscow with a stern warning. "It is necessary," said the Communist mouthpiece Pravda, "that the Japanese military and Fascist cliques, whose heads have been turned by military success, realize that their prattle about an annexationist war in the north may cause damage, first and most of all, to Japan herself...
Biddle's job will be to prove that Social Justice has committed sedition by efforts to "interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States." His case, as far as he has revealed it, is that in ten recent issues Social Justice has echoed the ten major propaganda themes of the Axis since Pearl Harbor. Samples...