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Real humility was not conspicuous. In Tokyo correspondents asked a Harvard-educated Foreign Office spokesman if Japan would ever again attempt world conquest. The spokesman gazed out of his window overlooking the city's devastation. Then he answered: "We are paying a very great price for our attempt. However, if your treatment is too severe, the Japanese will react...
...peak the Japanese tide of conquest had covered approximately one-tenth of the globe, encompassed 400 million of the world's two billion population. Japan's Greater East Asia bubble had burst...
...Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift in the ranks of the Socialist Party...
Pasha in the Desert. Morris soon sailed for home. Eaton quickly followed, to promote his own plan for the conquest of Tripoli. He proposed to place on the throne of Tripoli a pusillanimous and vacillating ex-Pasha, Hamet Karamanli, whose bloodthirsty younger brother Yusuf reigned supreme after having murdered one relative and frightened his rabbity senior away...
...While three warships gave support from the harbor, a central spearhead led by Eaton planted the U.S. flag on the city's walls. Yusuf's governor hid in a harem, and Hamet established himself in the royal palace. For one brief moment General Eaton tasted triumph: "The conquest of Tripoli was in sight and with it would come prestige for the U.S. throughout Barbary, the like of which no other nation enjoyed...