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...than any magic clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer threw a monkey wrench into the proposed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo military machine. As Navy Minister he refused to put his great fleet at the disposal of two major countries with minor navies...
...convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
...last war, he said, with candor, that it was lost by the Versailles Treaty-"The Allied Powers threw away their chance, both by faults of omission and commission. . . . For that tragedy no nation and no statesman can establish a full alibi." But he denied that "this is a mere war between imperialisms," and foresaw some better peace, based not on spoils but on a federalized Europe...
...Elliott threw the switch. The murderer stiffened epileptically; 1,700 volts crackled; smoke spurted from his head. Few minutes later Electrician Elliott unfastened the head electrode. Guards hoisted his handiwork onto a table, wheeled it into the autopsy room. So hard had young Elliott concentrated on doing a clean job, he forgot to feel any emotion...
...Madison, the Union threw discretion to the winds, turned from pink to bright red. Under the influence of its well-disciplined Communists, the convention...