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...ever attempted to dominate the Asiatic continent and prevented Japan from her pacific and natural expansion in this part of the world." Ambassador Grew rose, said he was terribly sorry that because of his deafness he had missed parts of the Viscount's speech, but had taken notes on what he had been able to hear. Consulting them, he gave a pleasant little talk...
...Soviet Union certain small islands, near Leningrad; 2) to refuse to concede to the Soviet Union control of the large Aland Islands near Stockholm; 3) to resist Soviet pressure to enter a military alliance which would make Finland the vassal of Russia. This appeared to be the line taken when Finnish Foreign Minister Dr. Juho Paasikivi went back to Moscow this week for more talks about the "friendship pact." Meantime, however, the Finns prudently prepared to vote $95,000,000 in war credits...
Bernadotte served for a time as the Governor of captured Hanover in Germany and buttered up influential Swedish officers taken prisoner during Napoleon's campaigns in the North. In 1810 the weakness of Sweden, together with the sudden death of the Swedish Crown Prince, emboldened a Stockholm Court clique to propose that one of Napoleon's marshals be sounded out as to whether he would accept election as heir to the Swedish throne...
...Rest. On the Furness Monarch of Bermuda's, last trip-the ship was painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan. They were let down again when they heard that the passenger list numbered 139, mostly natives returning to the storm-vexed, war-vexed Bermoothes...
...Even the most absolute dictator is susceptible to the influence of his surroundings. Nevertheless Herr Hitler's decisions, his calculations and his opportunism were his own. As Field Marshal Göring once said to me, 'When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts more than the stones on which we are standing. It is the Führer alone who decides.' If anything did count, it was the opinion of his mili tary advisers...