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The Occident also is concerned with the Arab world because in the Levant (Syria and Lebanon), France clings to shreds of empire, and will not give them up without a struggle which may well endanger world cooperation for the peace.
Victims and Successors. Out went: Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, the brilliant, irascible, Occident-hating Army Chief of Staff, opposite number of the U.S.'s George Marshall; and big, competent (to a point) Fleet Admiral Osami ("Elephant") Nagano, opposite number of the U.S.'s Ernie King.
>A general in whose opinion the noblest productions of the Occident are ice cream and bedpans.
Later, in the air, "time has ceased to run sterile through my fingers. Now, finally, I am installed in my function . . . an organism integrated into the plane. . . . The battle between the Nazi and the Occident was reduced to the scale of my job." At that point he realized that if...
Not all of Shanghai's plutocratic big bosses, the taipans, do their drinking at the Shanghai Club, or their business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city...