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With the teeth-gnashing pronouncement that he was retiring from the banking business for "the duration of the Roosevelt-concocted emergency," last week Banker Nichols made good his threat...
...blacked-out street in suburban Puteaux a steel cable, taut from curb to curb, overturned a car full of Nazi soldiers, injuring several. While Parisians waited tensely for Schaumburg to make good his threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext...
...adequately replaced, or 3) in such numbers that units would be broken up. Actually the War Department intended to turn them out as fast as it could after their first twelve months. It hoped to have almost 200,000 men back home by Christmas, barring war or more imminent threat...
...Only threat to Bertie McCormick's title as No. 1 isolationist publisher of the U.S. was that his cousin Joe Patterson (New York Daily News) threatened to out-McCormick him. Pulling out all the isolationist stops, Cousin Joe and News Chief Editorialist Reuben Maury (who also writes editorials for interventionist Collier's) vied with the Tribune's bitterest, Anglophobe, Roosevelt-hating, gallows-dancing, isolationist editorials, cartoons and news. One News editorial played variations on the theme: "[The Administration] is accused of keeping the war scare pumped up to frightful proportions in order that it may quietly...
...could.* At once Japan, which has spent the past months unable to make up its mind about anything, found itself faced with a new enigma-Vladivostok. Probably U.S. supplies for Russia would be routed to Vladivostok. The Japanese General Staff began to see possibilities of an Allied pincer threat toward Japan based on Vladivostok and Singapore. As of last week, the Japanese did not know the answer...