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Admiral Chester William Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was tenser than usual. For four months now he had been in command of a fleet on the defensive, a fleet of whose very whereabouts the U.S. had asked impatient, taunting questions. Now, at last, the chance was at hand to write in battle smoke across the Pacific sky the world-taunting reply: "Who wants to know where the Fleet is?" But in this modern naval battle Chester Nimitz' job kept him from taking personal part. With the ships under way, with all but the last-minute...
Things were even tenser by week's end. Some hundred U.S. citizens in Japan were refused permission by Japanese authorities to go home. Large numbers of Japanese civilians left China, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore. In Indo-China, where there are reported to be up to 100,000 Japanese troops, bubonic plague had broken out. Large Japanese troop concentrations were being made on Manchukuo's Russian border. Japanese Minister to Washington Kaname Wakasugi had telephoned an interview from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, explaining to his countrymen that the U.S. meant business, warned them...
...thing--keeping a nation out of war. On the other hand are Mr. Roosevelt's addresses, stirring and emotional, speaking of a civilization, a way of life that is in danger. With each new Nazi aggression the gulf between the two grows wider, the strain between them tenser. The invasion of the Lowlands evoked one of the most provocative of all the President's speeches, the one before the American Scientific Congress last Friday...
...reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb his future planned aggressions. He was described as looking much tenser than usual. Suddenly his entourage realized when he began that, having prepared no speech, he might in a moment of oratorical ecstasy say something which it might not be wise...
Harvard's labor situation grew tenser yesterday as the Harvard Employees Representative Association installed permanent members and dug themselves in for a long fight against the American Federation of Labor...