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What I do advocate is that Americans should learn enough of German history and politics to realize the truth: that Hitler and the Nazis are merely the latest and most hysterical expression of the century-old master race obsession of the German people and their resulting mania for world conquest...
This letter made it clear that: 1) the ordinary people of Japan have gained nothing from Japan's conquest; 2) Japan is short of domestic manpower and gasoline-else fish, a staple of Japanese diet, would not be short; 3) whatever else is rationed, Japanese women are still encouraged to produce sons for Japan's future armies...
...mother's poems, kept in secret and sent to his father 20 years after their separation, and her letters: "I am glad that our son has no inclination to be a, soldier. . . . Barbarous customs that I hope will disappear when there are no Kings and no desire for conquest and when man has the world for his country and all his fellow-beings for brothers. You will say that I am dreaming...
...that could provide U.S. readers of 1943 with some clue to the background of conflict from which they might appraise the turbulent changes of the year. The geopoliticians were busy. Andreas Dorpalen's The World of General Haushofer ($3.50) and Derwent Whittlesey's German Strategy of World Conquest ($2.50) examined the basic ideas which German Geopolitician Haushofer has contributed to Nazi grand strategy. Still a strong seller was Democratic Ideals and Reality ($2.50), by aging British Geopolitician Sir Halford Mackinder. There was also G. A. Borgese's Common Cause ($3.50) and a timely reissue of Walter Lippmann...
...clean wind blew from the Pacific, rippled the Stars & Stripes and the Union Jack flying side by side over the battered Gilberts. By virtue of a bloody conquest, the U.S. Navy had assumed military control over the 16 coral atolls. By virtue of a 49-year rule (1892-1941), broken briefly by the Japs, the British Colonial Office reassumed civil control...