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Where then is the threat? It is in South America, where the Nazi legions, wielding the double-edged sword of economic pressure and propaganda, may slowly close in on the Panama Canal, undermining our military security. We may be required for a decade, for a generation, to maintain a gigantic defense establishment. And a nation heavily armed and primed for total war is ripe for fascism, not necessarily an imported German brand, but a home-grown product sold us under the label of "national defense...
From Morocco onetime Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel last week flew to Vichy to surrender. He was clapped into bleak Château Chazeron with his fellow scapegoats, onetime Premiers Paul Reynaud and Edouard Daladier, former Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin. Cagey little sword-nosed Mandel for years kept a dossier on the misdemeanors of all high personages in France, and the Riom War Guilt Court would like to have this even more than his person...
...women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended the only invasion down the Hudson Valley that had even the faintest chance of substantial success. A new invader would advance with motor transport instead of bateaux, with tanks and aircraft instead of Indian allies. The chances of whether he could be defeated would depend largely on the means...
...texts from the militaristic Old Testament and glossed over the New; 3) that he had skipped the Old Testament's direst precedent against registration-II Samuel XXIV, wherein King David ordered a military census. It showed a count of 1,300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword" but the Lord, wroth at David, punished his presumption by killing 70,000 of them with pestilence in three days...
Keen little Marquis Kido has long been called "a sharp pocketknife" in the waistcoat of Prince Konoye. With great speed, the Marquis whittled for Konoye a wooden sword of authority-by the entirely unprecedented step of summoning an advisory conference including six former Premiers (including Prince Konoye himself, who held the office in 1937-39). All of them, including Konoye, wanted Konoye. Kido consulted with Elder Statesman Saionji, then reported to the Emperor. Within 24 hours of Yonai's resignation, the Emperor commanded Prince Konoye to form a Cabinet...