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...Leader. The new Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek tightened up his Government in a threefold move last week...
Britain's Policy. Europe's crises were threshed out in Britain's House of Commons. To a perturbed and sometimes heckling House, Foreign Secretary Eden explained that Britain's policy in liberated Europe has a threefold purpose: 1) to achieve victory; 2) to keep order behind the lines of the Allied armies; 3) to provide fair and untrammeled elections of governments and parliaments, free acceptance or rejection of royal houses...
...Stout Defense. Allied military sources credited the Nazis with 40 full-strength divisions-about 600,000 men-stretched along the 500-mile front from Switzerland to the North Sea. Eisenhower's men outnumbered them at least threefold, perhaps fivefold. Moreover, fewer than half the German units were first-class troops. Many of those holding fixed positions in the West Wall were barrel-scrapings : convalescents, striplings, oldsters, men with stomach trouble, ear trouble, eye trouble-even chronic alcoholics...
...human bite is sometimes sharper than a serpent's tooth. A bite that is hard enough to break the skin, even with prompt treatment, may result in an amputation. If treatment is delayed twelve hours, the chances of amputation are increased threefold. In fact, said Dr. Otho C. Hudson of Hempstead, L.I., in last fortnight's New York State Journal of Medicine, human bites anywhere on the body are much more dangerous than animal bites (except, of course, those of rabid dogs). Reason: human mouths contain very destructive bacteria...