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Catastrophe & Sin. Jap propaganda, by stressing the atomic bomb, likened defeat to a natural calamity. Said Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni: "The cause of our defeat was the sudden collapse of our fighting strength." Japanese seemed eager to accept this explanation. Perhaps they would never realize that, before the atomic bomb was dropped, their navy & merchant marine had been sunk, their air force whipped, their army outclassed...
...when he tastes Mrs. Frake's brandied mincemeat, so she too triumphs. The son and daughter also finally win their hearts' desires. (Good bit: Margy's and the reporter's innocent embrace when "their" horse wins a harness race, their embarrassed withdrawal, their sudden, serious kiss...
Slow Start. This sudden interest in the Export-Import Bank, and the volume of prospective loans, was something new to the Bank. In the eleven years since its creation, it has loaned only $612 million (at a profit of $43 million...
While Washington jittered over Tokyo's delay, the President looked ahead to the peace and its problems, switched on the green light for a startlingly sudden return of industry to prewar pursuits (see BUSINESS). To this end, he had called in Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach, OPAdministrator Chester Bowles, others whose orders set the reconversion machinery into operation. The President had also seen three groups of legislators, and had pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Secretary of State James F. Byrnes...
Both the stew and the task of occupation were without precedent. The U.S. and her Allies simply were not ready for sudden victory, and most of the alarums and troubles stemmed from that fact...