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That power is a stark and appalling fact. It will be so appraised in every capital. Liberated Europe, hypersensitive to power, will note it well. Asia, where occidental prestige plummeted after Pearl Harbor and Singapore, will record...
Another newspaper told the Japanese nation even more explicitly that the war was lost: "The only thing left to be done is to think out how to cope with this stark reality. Now it is high time that all of our nation should face reality squarely. Everyone should have his own firmest declaration. War is a reality. Only with the greatest determination can one cope with the reality...
...stark reality is that Japan and the Japanese people now stand at the crossroads of life or death. In this worst national crisis in our history, all the people must strictly guard against the danger of internal split and conflict. . . . Internal confusion is no way of saving the nation from the gravest crisis with which Japan is now confronted...
Thunder in the Street. In Manhattan, a few minutes before 10 a.m., workers in the midtown towers heard a plane close by - very close. It thundered past the stark, stone structures of Rockefeller Center. On the streets below, pedestrians startled by the low-flying craft looked up, saw Old John Feather Merchant barely miss a 60-floor building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Then the craft, southbound, pulled up into the cloud...
...charter "in stark reality" a three-power military alliance? Said Vandenberg: "The world is at the mercy of Russia, Britain and the U.S. regardless of whether we form this league or not. Those happen to be the facts of life, but I submit that the world is even more at their mercy without the San Francisco charter than with...