Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Next, instead of going ahead with the formation of a huge Cabinet, Premier Konoye called together these three men to clarify their platform. Every plank was new as fresh-cut pine. They agreed to strengthen ties with the Axis; to shake up Japan's diplomatic personnel (i. e., inject a few chauvinists) ; to establish a "zone of stability in East Asia" (i. e., Japan's sphere of exclusive domination) ; to re-examine Japanese-Soviet relations, with a view to possible rapprochement; to end "reliance" on the U. S. and Great Britain; to leave political-party members...
Finally, Premier Konoye proceeded in leisurely fashion to round out his Cabinet. Instead of talking to candidates face to face, he called them up by telephone. He made it clear that the Big Four - Konoye, Matsuoka, Tojo, Yoshida - would run the show. For the other Cabinet posts he did not pick big names or big careers, but five efficient, willing bureaucrats, two businessmen, and one journalist turned free-lance politician...
Mindful of historic precedent, old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, Chief of State, showed no eagerness last week to see German troops withdrawn once more from Paris. Instead, he worked overtime at Vichy, provisional capital of unoccupied France, to persuade the German-French Armistice Commission to fulfill its promise, let his Government settle down in Paris under Nazi protection...
Frontier. Instead of this remote danger of attack from the Pacific, there will be a new and far more serious danger from the Atlantic if Nazi Germany seizes or destroys Britain's Navy. The only route for an attacker crossing the Atlantic to strike at the Canal is through an area long regarded by most U. S. citizens as a source of rich commerce and a place for sunlit vacations: the Caribbean...
...nonslip crutch with three legs instead...