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Learning the news of Japan's sudden attack upon the United States, American Defense, Harvard Group hastened yesterday to take a stand upon the new developments and stated that we should now be prepared to declare war on Hitler, the real instigator of Japan's actions, and on Italy, the other Axis partner. Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy and president of the American Defense, Harvard Group, emphasized this view last night in his talk before the mass meeting in Sanders Theater...
...have ignored them for years; or the steel companies could accept a closed shop without giving the union appreciably more strength in future negotiations. Lewis had offered a penalty clause against strikes, insuring uninterrupted coal production throughout the emergency. But the operators refused-bolstered with new courage by the sudden spectacular support of Franklin Roosevelt, who had a bellyful of strikes-as-usual. Clearly the National Defense Mediation Board put the problem...
Conceding that Britain's July-August losses were "relatively low," Germans talked knowingly of a sudden upward spurt, boasted of a vastly augmented submarine fleet, "new weapons" and improved tactical methods, new fully trained submarine crews. They promised additional and expanded U-boat wolf packs, and pointed out that long winter nights are a prime U-boat advantage, since subs usually remain submerged during the day, fight from the surface at night...
Upon no great trick or discovery hinges this sudden spurt into once unimaginable pressures. Instead it is the climax of a decade of development in welding, alloys resistant to heat and stress, sensitive control instruments...
...very best indication that Japan was still shy of war was, after all, Pinch Hitter Kurusu's long, sudden hop. For the most grievous pinch in Japanese history, Japan had at least picked its likeliest pinch hitter. Fifty-four-year-old Saburo Kurusu had just about the maximum sense of the American temper possible to a patriotic, native-born Japanese. Known as the most Westernized of Japanese diplomats, he speaks English well, is an after-dinner wit in several languages. His diplomatic career has taken him to China, the Philippines, Hawaii, Chile, Italy, Greece, New York...