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Historic Irony. In 1750 this God-obsessed nation suffered one of history's supreme ironies: its conquest was begun by the world's No. 1 modern industrial power - Britain. For a century India supplied a large part of the capital wherewith Britain financed its industrial expansion and presently formed a big part of the market to which Britain sold its manufactures...
...pruning the deadwood off the scraggly tree of his Chinese conquest. He took his time about it, and harassed the Chinese armies at every turn-but he retreated. For him the most valuable part of China lay north of the Yangtze River, and he had to return there to defend it. Last week the withdrawing movement gave the Chinese the big prize of Wenchow, ancient treaty port on the east coast. Its occupation increased the Chinese-held coastline to 280 unbroken miles. Another and bigger prize, due to fall momentarily, would be Liuchow, onetime U.S. air base...
Blood on the Sun (United Artists], a story about a Hoover-era American editor who learned of Baron Tanaka's plan for world conquest and tried to get the document out of Japan, is mainly apocryphal. But as melodrama it is as hard, tidy and enjoyable as the work of its star James Cagney, the dean of the sort of movie in which action and good sense collaborate instead of colliding...
...Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist David Lawrence picked up the cry and shrilled about the "military fiasco at Okinawa ... a worse example of military incompetence than Pearl Harbor." He blamed the Navy's heavy losses, in ships and men, on the "bungling" which had prolonged the conquest...
...challenged and eclipsed by Buddhism as the imperial dynasty was eclipsed by the shogunate. But in 1868 it became Japan's state religion, a cult of the dead based on ancestor worship, and resumed its interrupted task of molding the Japanese people for their divine mission of conquest...