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...spread of the war made it harder than ever for Vichyfrance to decide how far to commit itself to Germany's world ambitions. On the one hand were signs that Vichy might soon join the Axis...
...Sniffed Australia's Minister for External Affairs, Herbert Vere Evatt: "The invitation to Japan to invade us is nothing short of an invitation to Japan to commit national suicide...
There were other signs that Japan was licking her chops over Russia. In Washington the "exploratory conversations" between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura slowed down, principally over Japan's unwillingness to commit herself against further adventures. Fresh from a tour of southern French Indo-China, Correspondent Leland Stowe reported that Japan held that country with too small forces for offensive operations to the south...
...George Murphy) is a serious young automobile salesman with a talent for getting barely perceptible promotions and a tendency to hiss Hitler at the movies. When he threatens to commit suicide if his proposal is rejected, she is really interested, asks breathlessly: "How?" Later, unraveling her fiancé with a phone-girl friend, she concludes: "I think maybe he gets promoted too much...
...discovering German "sanity" last week, few of the doctors recalled that: 1) according to available statistics, 4.1 out of every 10,000 Germans commit suicide (in America the rate is 1.4); 2) despite Hitler's attempt to kill off the insane, the population of German lunatic asylums rose from 185,000 in 1923 to almost 350,000 in 1936. Nor did many of the psychiatrists recall how they had hailed recently a book (Beyond the Clinical Frontiers) by Dr. Edward Adam Strecker of the University of Pennsylvania, which put forth the theory that the Germans are victims of "mass...