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After the Jolt, Yosuke Matsuoka quickly rebounded, confident that he was the man to straighten things out. He has not felt many twinges of modesty in his 60 years. Urbane, roly-poly, positive as an electric shock, with a flair for guessing what others are thinking and hiding what he is, Yosuke Matsuoka is ideally suited to ride the second biggest saddle in a near-totalitarian regime. In his own person he symbolizes the collapse of the ideal of collective security: it was he who, with an unlit cigar clenched between his teeth, imperiously beckoned to the Japanese delegates...
...Nothing. The distinction that was made between these visitors was clear, deliberate, sometimes purposely cruel. Only 100% Roosevelt Democrats were welcome. The shock to party oldsters was frightful. Hundreds on hundreds of them went to Chicago personally acquainted with only one nationally-known Democrat, Jim Farley. Now they mobbed Big Jim in elevators, lobbies, on the street, stopping his car, clutching his hands, his clothes, asking him puzzled questions...
...most U. S. citizens last week it was as if a well-loved wife had been unfaithful. The shock was no less because they had expected it. France had been cajoled, betrayed, raped, but what hurt was her final acquiescence. To some it seemed because of that final acquiescence. France, now brazenly fascist, must always have been unfaithful to democracy at heart...
...broadcasts to date indicate that English small fry are not much interested in military strategy, are not morbidly appalled by fearful human slaughter. They like to hear reports of exciting sea battles, are intense in their concern for young refugees. Most overwhelming response to any broadcast was the profound shock that greeted the news that all German dogs were to be immediately destroyed...
...play rugby in peacetime. This bit of ground is too small for an airfield and is separated by heavy barbed wire and land mines from the border town of La Linea de la Concepcion alive with Spanish artillery, troops and prostitutes. From this quarter even a horde of German shock troops would have difficulty storming the British guns trained from camouflaged, cement-lined galleries that are cut deep enough (by General Sir Edmund Ironside, the Rock's former commandant) to defy overhead bomb attacks...