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Even if Premier Luang Pitul does yield, Japan may have a fight on her hands. If Japan occupies Thailand's Isthmus of Kra (on the Malay Peninsula) the Japanese will have bases from which they could easily attack Singapore. And they might, from Thailand, be able to close the Burma Road into China. It remained to be seen how much aggression in these quarters the British would stand for. Last week the 30,600-ton battleship Warspite was reported sighted in the Gulf of Siam...
...once buzzing sawmill town of Gladstone, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, lumberjacks last week played at their favorite sport, birling. It was the first national birling championship in three years...
...Italian people followed Mussolini to war reluctantly. Their reluctance arose from their centuries-old indifference to imperialism. Through the Renaissance they had a deep-rooted and passionate love for their own paese. It took another 300 years to extend this local patriotism to love of their country, their peninsula. In the 72 years since Italy began acquiring an empire the Italian people have usually remained stolidly bored by the process...
...went to war, he picked Austria as the loser and attacked from the south. He was soundly trounced at Custozza, but he got Venetia in the peace settlement. When France was prostrate in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 he annexed the Papal State, which Napoleon had protected. The peninsula was at last united. Proclaimed Vittorio Emanuele: "It only remains to make our country great and happy...
...Great Britain's island and peninsula possessions would grant increasing powers of self-government. Throughout all these Pacific islands there would be admitted Japanese advisers. . . . Australia would eliminate discriminatory legislation on immigration, permitting Japanese equality of settlement...