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...scant six weeks its pattern had been spread for the U.S. people to read in every page of the Congressional Record, in the angry, antibureaucracy bills that tumbled into full hoppers, in the killing off of Leon Henderson and Ed Flynn, in no less than 17 investigations of the Government, in the wrathful roar that followed directives, orders, Federal moves big & small...
...reveals itself as what the Tories always said it was-a war for national survival, a war in defense of certain conservative igth Century ideals, and not what I and my friends of the Left said that it was-a revolutionary civil war in Europe on the Spanish pattern." Koestler believes that the war aim of each European nation is not democracy but national liberation: "One of the main curses Hitler has brought on us is that by trying to unify Europe in the wrong way, he has brought forth such a recrudescence of nationalistic, chauvinistic feeling that the clock...
Nagano's Arc. The pattern of these skirmishes, both naval and verbal, indicated that both sides have some pretty heavy plans for the South Pacific. On the Japanese side, the man responsible for plans was the man who had Secretary Knox on the edge of his chair-Chief of Staff Osami Nagano. He must orient his plans, whatever they may be, to the situation in which Japan now finds herself. It is an excellent defensive position. To the east there is a stretch of Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing...
...logic of this defensive pattern imposes on Admiral Nagano an ironclad duty: he must, either by defensive or offensive measures, make the southern arc secure. Because the U.S. now grows strong south of his arc, he will have to fight to do his duty. The only way to guess how he will fight is to know how all Japs fight. By last week, officers returning from the South Pacific had told some of the truth about how Japs fight...
...politics are tolerable as long as they represent him alone. His demands for wartime civilian sacrifice seem justified, but in camouflaging a reactionary attack on American unionism under the guise of "soldier's representative," he is stepping too far. Let Rickenbacker remain the air hero, the undying fighter, the pattern for a flyer's dream; but let the War Labor Board, the unions, the American public itself determine the future of Labor...