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...worst diplomatic defeat in years, a flat refusal by The Netherlands Indies to recognize Japanese "rights" to abnormal amounts of tin and rubber. The U.S. was suddenly on the aggressive in the Pacific (see p. 37) and two western powers with which Japan had in the past year sealed solemn pacts of friendship and neutrality-Russia and Germany-were suddenly at each other's throats...
...Japan demonstrates to the world at large the solemn fact that it respects the independence and sovereignty of the National Government of China, but does not recognize the sovereignty of Chungking. This is calculated to produce a very serious effect on Chungking and on third powers...
...Comrades this is a memorable, solemn day. It is just a year since our entrance into the war. A year filled with events, giddy, historical developments." So last week said the loudest noise in Italy...
Next post she wangled him-"on Richard's solemn oath that he would act with 'unusual' prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...millions of Catholics who had long awaited guidance, to statesmen who cocked careful ears on both sides of the battle lines, Pope Pius XII last week broadcast his first solemn pronouncement on basic social issues-the rights of the individual v. the growing power of the State; the equitable distribution of social goods; the relations of capital & labor; the importance of the family; the necessity of Lebensraum for overcrowded peoples; the need for a return to the land. The Pope's address charted the rights and obligations of Catholics in a changing society and foreshadowed the Church...