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...tried to commit suicide to escape trial (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945) did not now try to save his neck. His sovereign, Emperor Hirohito, was not to blame for anything, said Tojo. At the meeting during which the General Staff presented its first war plans, "His Majesty was pleased to listen . . . although not uttering a single word. . . . The responsibility of defeat devolves on myself as Premier...
This experience left Miss Utley an embittered and angry woman. During the war she urged the U.S. to sign a negotiated peace with Hitler, so that Germany and Russia could kill each other off. In China, she now wants the U.S. to commit itself to intervention if necessary, "to challenge Russia in the interests of peace and freedom while she is still too weak to dare risk war with us." Like Governor Dewey, she finds it hard to understand a State Department that says so-far-and-no-further to Communism in Europe, while by neutrality in China...
...brother, an-unrecalcitrant Nazi, appears on the scene. His fanatical sentiments for a united German people and a repetition of the last war "again, and again, and again" are rejected by her along with the swastika medallion he presses into her palm. That is why she tries to commit suicide when her husband believes she must be a Nazi at heart upon learning her brother's beliefs. It is then that Aunt Nora realizes she cannot let Frieda drown even as the waters swirl over her head for she is not so much a German as a human being...
...Princeton to the single wing. "With a man in motion, a play can always explode," is the opinion of one of the device's fathers, Coach Harlow. The resulting strain on the ingenuity of the defensive secondary lines is tremendous, and they must always overcome the tendency to commit themselves before the play unravels. If the safety loses a step to a man in motion, on the other hand, he can lose the ball game...
...loss of the season, Coach MacDonald's team abandoned its game and tried to beat the Indians at their own plays. "Every year we seem to play our worst game against Dartmouth," MacDonald says. "Maybe some day we'll learn that the way to beat them is not to commit modified kinds of assault and battery on the playing field." The team now seems to accept the doctrine. One more game will tell...