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...Aimone was nominated to the throne of the new puppet kingdom of Croatia. But never did a mouse give a trap wider berth than the new Tomislav II gave his kingdom. He preferred to frolic in Florence. With the armistice Aimone joined the Italian Navy, but managed to maintain his heavy social schedule...
...embarrassing fact is that the U.S. and British governments would just as soon finish off the Japs without Russia's valuable but hardly indispensable help. Their reason is that the peace in Asia would be a lot easier to make and maintain if Russia were not at the Pacific peace table. Actually, of course, Russia would have her say in an Asiatic peace anyhow. Now, whether she goes to the lengths of actual war with Japan or not, Russia will have a direct and powerful hand in the shaping of that peace. The U.S., Britain and their Asiatic ally...
...based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom. Nevertheless, it is the peculiar task of Harvard and every other university and college in this country to foster and maintain not only freedom within its own walls, but also tolerance, self-restraint, main dealing, and devotion to the truth throughout America...
Offspring of the illegal slot machine, pinball is big business now, although production of new machines was frozen by the War Production Board in May, 1942. Shopkeepers receive approximately half of the take, and the rest goes to the operators, who maintain the machines...
...canny pronouncement: "Should it fall to me, as it may do, to form a Government before elections, I shall seek aid not only of Conservatives, but of men of good will of any party or of no party." In other words, he would invite Labor and the Liberals to maintain the wartime coalition until the elections. Since both Parties have already agreed to secede from the Government on Germany's fall, they will be weakened if they accept, or be accused of self-interest if they refuse...