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Legacy of Suspicion. At Osaka, Garcia delivered his message to Japanese merchants: "Among Japan's underdeveloped neighbors, the wounds of battle have not been completely healed. We know the most effective way to wipe out the legacy of suspicion and hostility is for Japan to extend them credits...
This blunt proposal to wipe out freedom's most exposed outpost in Europe set off a flurry of excited headlines. Western diplomats had been expecting some kind of trouble over Berlin. Four days before, at a press conference, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had taken pains to be explicit: "We are most solemnly committed to hold West Berlin-if need be, by military force." London, Paris and Bonn were just as forthright. In West Berlin, citizens inured to crises went their rounds unflustered...
Back in New Haven again, Eli captain Paul Lynch read the newspapers and then retorted: "I see that Shaunessy has been saying they'll wipe us off the field. That makes good locker-room bait." He has acquired a record 54 tickets to this afternoon's encounter "for my family and relatives;" and the Lynch tribe clearly does not expect to witness a slaughter...
...through Surigao Strait between Leyte and Mindanao. The main striking group was the central force, under Vice Admiral Kurita. which was to steam through San Bernardino Strait north of Leyte between Samar and Luzon. Like two arms of a nutcracker, the two fleets were to converge on Leyte Gulf, wipe out. amphibious and supply craft there, and isolate MacArthur's forces on the island. A third (northern) force under Vice Admiral Ozawa was supposed to act as a decoy to lure off the powerful U.S. task force...
...mugging. That was 16 years ago when she started swinging the classics for Chicago, her home town. Still, the roots of the clown were there. Even when she was an eight-year-old, baseball-playing tomboy in the South Side black belt, her piano teachers could not wipe off her unconscious grimaces. But for a long while she managed to hold the rest of her contortions in check. An agent got her a job in a Dearborn Street gin mill-the kind of place where she could show up in sweater and skirt and had to keep her purse...