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...issue of May 7, you state: "Wars and rumors of wars can be eliminated by nothing short of an international state with world wide citizenship..." You state further: "Gradually, as the nations acquire more and more trust in it, U. N. can wield ever increasing power...
...best the nations are willing to accept. If it exercises its limited powers fairly and well, U.N. can create opinion favorable to an international government and can demonstrate that it is capable of assuming greater responsibilities. Gradually, as the nations acquire more and more trust in it, U.N. can wield ever increasing power. This development can be hastened by intelligent discussion and criticism, but not by the ill-reasoned carping or unqualified disparagement that is currently popular among certain fanatic internationalists...
...American-occupied zone, control authorities kicked out 40,000 Berlin block, street and house leaders. They had originally been appointed by the Russians to search out known Nazis, handle ration cards, report on available labor. The American report was that the small-fry German leaders had begun to wield power in their neighborhoods just as arrogantly as their predecessors in Germany's notorious block organizations had done under Hitler; some of them had actually worked under the Nazi regime. (The British still held to the block leaders, warned them not to consider themselves little kings but servants...
Japanese women "have been taught to hate you. They do as their men tell them, and many of them have been told to kill you. Sex is one of the oldest and most effective weapons in history. The Geisha girl knows how to wield it charmingly. She may entice you only to poison you. She may slit your throat. Stay away from the women of Japan - all of them...
...Port Arthur it was just an ordinary busy morning. The big, bulging grain elevators (capacity: more than 50,000,000 bu.) were hiring anyone who could and would wield a shovel. More grain ships than ever before were being loaded at the great Lake Superior port...