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...embarrassing. But as an ally of the democracies he put up with it-perhaps not too painfully. Speech was now so free that the Parliament was delaying the transport bill with interminable debate. Individual opinions were so tolerated that swastikas might be seen on many walls, and in the bazaar hawkers sold portraits of Adolf Hitler. And anyone who wanted could listen to his radio and hear Axis propaganda. The Shah confessed himself a frequent listener to Japanese broadcasts in Iranian. "The Japanese," he said, "never mention themselves, but always talk of what Germany can do for Iran. They . . . invariably...
...military is on the alert, and every possible defense measure is being undertaken. My message is one of serenity and confidence." One Japanese was arrested for snipping telephone wires, one was caught with an old, much-used set of harbor charts, 13 others were found barricaded in the Nippon Bazaar, a few were caught carrying knapsacks packed with tinned goods; but for the most part the Japanese herded docilely into concentration camps...
Since the November issue of the Advocate does not in the least resemble the works of Ronald Firbank or an old copy (c. 1916) of Harper's Bazaar, it is not open to the charge of preciousness that has been directed against the magazine from time to time. Actually it was never clear that this charge, although easy to make, derived from any very firm idea of what the undergraduate contributions should be like. Apprentice writers have a good deal to do, and very little experience yet available for expression. They need a free medium in which they have scope...
...Other front-rank U. S. women magazine editors: Beatrice Gould (Ladies' Home Journal, world's biggest women's magazine); Edna Chase (Vogue); Carmel Snow (Harper's Bazaar); Mrs. William Brown Meloney (This Week);Betsy Talbot Blackwell (Mademoiselle...
...Hauser eschews Freud for Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have regarded it somewhat as a "charity bazaar." Says Hauser: "The impact of a military defeat upon the Japanese would be more violent, more revolutionary, more savage and more definite than in any other nation or society...