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Colonel Hashimoto is an extremist's cynosure: he is tough, aggressive, cruel, tenacious, mystical. He loves action, and he acts by instinct. His body and mind are as hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government...
Last week the British in the Athenee Palace were not cheery. They gathered in private rooms or quiet corners and exchanged pessimisms. They said: Doesn't all that heel-clicking sicken you? Did you know that barges have started down the Danube with ack-ack equipment, tanks and ammunition? Did you hear that German girls threw flowers at the Jerries as they marched into Sibiu and Seghisoara? Isn't it awful that the Nazi G. H. Q. is to be in the building where Carol's guards used to stay? Wasn't it typical...
Civilians lost sleep and work. Each night from 10 p.m. until dawn the noise of bombs and "ack ack" (signaling lingo for A. A. - antiaircraft) was almost unbearable, though the defense barrage was comforting. It was also expensive - ?250,000 nightly - and brought down only 3% to 5% of bagged planes. The siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole...
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