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...that event, light vessels of the British, Dutch and U. S. forces operating from the Indies, Singapore, Manila, Guam, etc., would doubtless begin a blockade of Japan. All her seaborne commerce could probably be destroyed except that with China, Manchukuo and Korea. Even that could be harried by submarines. Weakened as she is by her three-year-old war in China, and dependent on supplies and markets overseas, her eventual defeat would be likely. At worst she might hold out until it became necessary to withdraw the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic. If she then took the Indies...
...recognized that "some of these experiments possess common sense and beauty." Frenchmen were quick to note that the manifesto of the New Order included no discussion of a constitution, contained no references to any parliamentary body. Alarmed, the semi-official Temps urged, "The institutions of the New France must doubtless be partially elective...
...true that the Harvard faculty includes some 129 reserve officers. Many of them would doubtless be willing to give of their time to the training of students if they thought it would be worthwhile. But in the last war the work of faculty reserve officers in training students proved so unsatisfactory that ten weeks before the United States declared war on Germany, President Lowell asked the French to send over some of their regular officers to take charge. And in 1940, Congress has voted conscription for the very purpose of avoiding the "green officers training green men" technique...
...Russia and Japan can reach an agreement on spheres of influence in China, China may find herself Poland. But if Russia continues to send supplies to the Chinese, China may gain by the pact. Last week the U. S. gave China a $25,000,000 credit, and Britain will doubtless reopen the Burma Road. Both Britain and the U. S. now desperately need China's aid in keeping Japan too busy to spread out into the East Indies...
...spells trouble. The U. S. Defense Commission's battles against bottlenecks have demonstrated all too clearly how a hit on one vital supply plant could slow up a whole chain of processes. Furthermore, most of these firms produced non-military goods, and the percentage among strategic industries was doubtless substantially higher...