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...have gone as far as is consistent either with law, with sentiment or with security. ... It [the war] is not purely a world conflict between tyranny and freedom. The Anglo-Russian alliance has dissipated that illusion...
Tough Miles. Looking south last week Japan's soldiers and sailors saw an Anglo-Dutch line of defense running for nearly one-seventh of the earth's circumference: down 400 miles of treacherous Malay coastline to the forbidding hinge at Singapore, then 3,000 miles out into the southeast until it reached the barbarous fringes of the Netherlands domain. The Japanese generals and admirals might even decide to by-pass Singapore for the time being, to take a fling directly at the Indies. If it succeeded, Japan would be safe; if it failed, Japan was through. It would...
...five swift hours freezing orders crackled in from all parts of the Anglo-Saxon world. Now no Japanese could spend a dollar more than $500 monthly per person in the U.S., move a ship out, sell a pound of silk-without a specific Treasury license. Importers Mitsui, for instance, could still buy oil from Standard Oil on dollar credits exchanged through the South American branches of National City Bank, for instance-but only with a license. Hints came down that the license business at the Treasury would be as indefatigably polite as Japanese statesmanship, but also just as reluctant...
...stand guard over the northern approaches to Suez, which in turn guard one approach to Africa. And across two-thirds of the waist of Africa lies French Equatorial Africa, a vital link in one supply line to Egypt, a dagger pointed at Axis Libya, and a possible base for Anglo-U.S. operations along Africa's west coast...
...wife's over-gallant, pestiferous insistence on not being left out of the fun; some neatly managed Anglo-American propaganda; a safe outcome for the adventure, with the tagline: "This isn't the end for any of us. It's just the beginning...