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...Rehoboam: last king of the old kingdom of Israel, who said (I Kings 12:11): "And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions...
Events are liars-we were not defeated-we were sold, betrayed. . . ." Spain also had her message: "We are glad of the re-election of Roosevelt," the Spaniards told us. "It will mean a certain restraint on certain people! We do not want war-but we are oxen, with the yoke around our necks-dreading to be led to a second slaughter." Portugal, too. . . . We drove over the side of a precipice in the fog-only a small rock had saved our car from rolling down the mountainside. In the pitch blackness, a crew of ten workingmen struggled to save...
Thus were these noncomplementary economics forced into partial yoke for diplomacy's sake. In the offing was a still more difficult problem : How could the U.S. arm Latin America while arming itself and Britain too? With the U. S. steel industry at an all-time production peak and domestic priorities threatening, Latin America's orders stood at the end of the queue. Japan was still importing steel sheets and shapes for its Navy from U. S. mills last week. One possible halfway step: to give Latin-American orders priority over Japanese...
...three months Germany has tried to persuade Norwegians to put the yoke around their own necks, produce a Nazi-run Government of their own. But Norway turned stubborn at every turn. First efforts were directed at King Haakon, but he refused to abdicate. Then pressure was turned on the Storting (Parliament). Terboven demanded the deposition of Haakon by parliamentary decree, delegation of power to a Riksraad (National Council) willing to cooperate with Germany. To lend ideological coloring Nazi mystagogue Dr. Alfred Rosenberg turned out a neat phrase, embracing Norway, Sweden and Denmark in a Nazi "Community of Fate" (TIME, July...
...Moyale in Kenya. From the Dodecanese Islands they bombed Haifa and Tel Aviv in Palestine. The debacle of Dakar did not help the British cause in the Near East. Nightly the Italian short-wave station at Bari urged the Moslem world and particularly Egyptians to "throw off the yoke" of British Imperialism...