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Gone was the battle line which had dominated the Pacific in the first months after Pearl Harbor. The manner of its passing revealed the inherent weakness of Japan's imperial aspirations; Japan's sea lords, with all their bombast, had never dared commit the battle fleet as a unit in a bold strike for strategic mastery...
...said to him wearily: "I suppose it will be impossible for even America to send us all the food we need to survive. But the least the Allies can do is to distribute poison to those who want it. Now we don't even have any way to commit suicide. You will see when the gas is turned on again how many of us will kill ourselves before we starve to death...
...stronger measures against resisters. The testimony showed that he had become embittered against the-prewar French Gov ernment because it preferred the German nitrogen process to his own, that he was a close friend of Royalist Leader Charles Maurras. After the Allied landing in North Africa, he tried to commit suicide by swallowing a heavy dose of strychnine...
...Small nations must disappear, and when these small nations are disposed of, the big must eat one another up. . . . And they will all be eaten. But it is better to be the small one. For as the Greek poet said, 'It is better to bear injustice than to commit...
Applicants for places in the First Naval District's "limited quota" are cautioned by Lieutenant Commander Sussenguth, officer in charge of aviation enlistments, that they must commit themselves for a term of four years to start only when they become aviation cadets at pre-flight training