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...Hirota was able to advise the Son of Heaven that in China events were transpiring which could only mean that the Japanese Cabinet had been right and the Privy Council wrong. Nearly all Japanese were entirely convinced that what they heard from China last week was the rumble of thunder on the Left- an inexorable warning that China, under no matter what leaders, was in course of shifting its political centre of gravity from Right to Left as the necessary prelude to enlisting Soviet aid for a Chinese war with Japan. The Young Marshal's broadcast was clearly...
...Soong should judge Japan to be in such an economic and political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that dirty trick on Tsar Nicholas at Port Arthur. Why should not Dictator Stalin play...
...this din shall the heavens be cloven, and the sons of Muspell ride thence: Sutr shall ride first and both before and after him burning fire." Leading the giants is the traitor Loki, holding a flame thrower, and Frey, who opposes him is swept by flames. Thor, the thunder god, rushes to the attack, wielding his mighty workman's hammer...
...Majesty's subjects in England and India from ever hearing of Mrs. Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her. The Yorkshire Post does not actually mention Mrs. Simpson by name but opens the censorship breach sufficiently for the London Times to "thunder" at the King next morning (still without naming Mrs. Simpson) and for the London News Chronicle, largely owned by the Cadbury's chocolate family, to be the first paper in the Kingdom to name the King's intended wife...
Captains Gaffney and Morrell then mentioned to Irwin that they would like to start playing again if he didn't want the field any more. "Yes", said the baton waver. As the referee approached for the fifth round the music ended in a triumphant and defiant thunder of drums, and the Band with proud smiles, retired in orderly retreat...