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...factor: "Failure of the enemy to make the most of the situation." The German High Command-almost incredibly, but on the best of evidence-had no overall strategic plan. Wrangling between Hitler and his generals, lack of coordination between the Axis powers had wrecked what might have been a conquest of the world. Japan's strategic plan, its climax an invasion of the Aleutians, bombardment of the U.S. Northwest and seizure of critical areas, had "initially failed when she missed the opportunity of landing troops on Hawaii." George Marshall made it crystal clear that the U.S. had had much...
...years ago. Sooner than most, he had learned that there was no passive defense against aggression. As Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State in 1931, he had spoken out almost alone against the Japs' first thrust at China. From then on he had refused to recognize Axis conquest, even when it was unpopular to refuse...
Harvard will open its soccer season by playing Brown tomorrow at 3 o'clock, in Providence. Coach Jack MacDonald has an inexperienced team to pit against the Bruins, who are fresh from a conquest of the Coast Guard Academy after a summer of practice. Coach MacDonald has not settled on a lineup yet and is still locking for a Freshman manager...
...economy and would cheerfully jettison the militarists, the dangerous tendency, Roth believes, is for the U.S. to leave Japan's private affairs largely to them. By doing so the U.S. would certainly "maintain unchanged the internal conditions that were basically responsible for launching Japan on her campaign of conquest...
Hirohito and his Zaibatsu have repeatedly styled themselves "moderates" yet promoted the course of militarism from the beginning. Japan, says Author Roth, is bristling with genuine anti-militarists, many of whom have died or found sanctuary in Communist China rather than follow the path of conquest. He pleads that the U.S. put its confidence in these, rather than in the silkily persuasive aristocrats...