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...chosen, the Japanese Government stipulated that he should hold office for life. The Methodists obediently changed their constitution. With the favor of Japan's nationalist rulers, Bishop Abe may receive powers over Japanese Christians similar to those which Hitler's Reich-Bishop Ludwig Miiller tried in vain to use on German Protestants...
...hawking fruit from a truck. She had him arrested, taken to court. There she charged him with desertion, told the judge that Leo Pigola was really Ballou Klein, her husband, who had disappeared in 1922 with their savings of several hundred dollars, stranding her with three infants. In vain Mr. Pigola protested that he was a Polish immigrant who had landed in the U. S. in 1921, had never be fore laid eyes on Mrs. Klein...
...bedlam of argument and dissension, like a roomful of children whose teacher has departed. Charges that the Guild was ruled by a handful of Communists and fellow travelers came to a head last month at the Guild convention in Memphis (TIME, July 22) when rebellious Guildsmen tried in vain to install a new regime...
...every Frenchman - and no Englishman - accepted the Compiegne armistice terms. In London General Charles de Gaulle, the 50-year-old Under Secretary for War in Paul Reynaud's Cabinet, who for years had argued in vain for greatly expanded mechanization of the Army, appealed for continued resistance to the Nazis. "This capitulation," he said over the radio, "was signed before all means of resistance had been exhausted. This capitulation delivers into the hands of the enemy, who will use them against our Allies, our arms, our warships and our gold. . . . There is no longer on the soil of France...
...Scholz uttered a protest once before, when the Traveler, in a syndicated story by Washington Columnist Harlan Miller, hinted that he had tried in vain to crash Washington society. The Traveler apologized. Last week it looked as if Consul Scholz had protested once too often...