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...approaches to the Western Hemisphere and the aviation bases at Goose Bay in Labrador, Gander on the East Coast, the U.S.-leased airport at Stephenville. These were reasons enough for Britain to keep her hand in Newfoundland affairs; why, as Newfoundland's trustee, she refused to commit herself on postwar air rights in Newfoundland territory at the Chicago air conference...
...Rundstedt had still more hidden reserves to commit to battle, he might possibly try to cut in behind the First and destroy the bulk of it, roll up the three other Allied armies to the north, recapture Antwerp and even wheel back into France. These were high stakes indeed, and the Germans' chances seemed correspondingly small...
...quietly shoved into the background and Eivind Berggrav, man of God and man of peace, took to the radio to appeal for order. "The civil population must refrain from any interference," he said. "Civilians who forcibly mix themselves up in the war by sabotage or in any other way, commit the greatest crime against their own countrymen...
...chief weaknesses is instability. Reared in Japan's feudal atmosphere, savagely repressed all his life, he is apt to blow up in tight spots, make "banzai" suicide charges, commit harakiri. Victorious, he swells with arrogance and takes his repressions out on helpless prisoners...
...mean that to resurrect their standing in the world, Italians would do anything - even commit themselves to a war which they are not prepared to wage, militarily, financially or humanly...