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...latest prankish maneuver against austere, high-minded Francis Sayre, U.S. High Commissioner. Sometimes they say it with pride-their shrewd, peppery, uncontrollable Quezon, their cleverest politician, their smartest poker player, their smoothest ballroom dancer, their best-dressed man, their orator, their constant winner by overwhelming votes, their patriot, their President...
Into national headquarters, after the Lindbergh speech, poured a flood of mail, which America Firsters broke down into the "for" and the "against." According to their tally, 93.3% of the letters were in Lindbergh's defense, usually taking the line that a great patriot was being maligned and attacked by interests with ulterior motives. Typical: "We know that the heart of this boy is Pure Gold. We know that in speaking to the American People he gives of his best." One Midwest chapter reported that it had lost three members, gained 60. Other chapters reported similar results...
...most exciting active duty was in the Shanghai hostilities of 1932, in which he commanded the Japanese forces. Here he lost his right eye, but not in battle. At a review in celebration of the Emperor's birthday a Korean patriot tossed a bomb into the grandstand. The grandstand blew up. Admiral Nomura was pocked but still alive. His first glass eye was presented to him by the Empress...
Into the woods near Honolulu's Schofield Barracks one night last week crept 60-year-old Ushi Makamine. Though he had lived in Honolulu under the U.S. flag, Makamine-san was planning the gesture of a fiery Japanese patriot. He would set the central island of Oahu afire, die himself in a blaze of glory...
...propaganda of patriotism under way, many a U.S. patriot has been thinking about posters. By last week, some of these thoughts had already taken shape, were ready for the nation's bulletin board...