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...Background for Peace. At Fort Sheridan, Ill., the post library reported that its most popular books were those on the care & feeding of infants...
Applicants who successfully pass the rigorous aviation physical examination and mental aptitude tests will be sent to V-12 units for college training. They will be given one, two, or three terms of four months each, beginning about July 1, with length of schooling depending on "academic background and needs of service...
Benny's last name was Martin and by the time they realize, with horror, that it is pronounced Marteen and that Benny came from deep on the ineligible side of the tracks, they have very little time left to give him a creditable background. When they swoop on Benny's father, he thinks they have come in force to evict him for nonpayment of rent. When he finally realizes what the game is, the boosters, the general, the girl and the no-good have to work out their own solutions...
Ferocious Masks. In the quiet and careful seclusion of the imperial boyhood, war and the warrior mind, like the ferocious masks of Japanese No plays, loomed always in the background...
...Manchuria in 1931, the invasion of North China in 1937, the blow at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The totalitarian forces which had shaped his state shaped his place in it. The westernized elder statesmen and their successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki (now Premier), were denounced by chauvinistic young officers as bad influences around...