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...complete list of Japanese proposals reached the public. But it was reported that to most of them-Japanese pledges not to invade Siberia, to get out of French Indo-China, to make many minor concessions-the U.S. continued to quote Mein Kampf. Aside from the moral issues involved, the U.S. cannot let Japan-and Hitler-get control of China's huge man power. Four points were given as summing up Secretary Hull's counter-demands on the Japanese: 1) that Japan withdraw from the Axis; 2) get out of China and French Indo-China; 3) renounce aggression...
Saburo Kurusu made only one statement : he asked for silence. Japanese newspapers headlined doubts of the success of his mission. There were no signs that Japan could still think of a peaceful Pacific.* Tension was increased when the U.S. Consulate at Saigon, in Japan-dominated Indo-China, was bombed. As U.S.Japanese talks made no progress, Secretary Hull held two conferences with the representatives of Australia, Britain, China, The Netherlands. The U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana (see p. 13) was a powerful demonstration of U.S.-Dutch collaboration, a warning that there would be more collaboration if Japan should move against...
...year ago brought the militarists still more kudos. As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91. The Army topped off its glorious decade with its Indo-China grab...
Forty-eight hours later 50 French prison ers stumbled out of their cells and were riddled by firing squads. They were trade-union leaders, "Communists," men suspected of helping the British or Free French. One was not a Frenchman but an Anamese from Indo-China. But still the men who had shot Lieut. Colonel Karl Friedrich Holtz were free. Not even the promise of a sizable fortune had persuaded their friends to betray them to the Ger mans. General von Stülpnagel announced that he would shoot 50 more hostages if they were not found...
...struggle. The Burmese are isolationists. Some Londoners, however, thought that Premier U Saw felt less isolationist after he had seen the husks of some of London's buildings. His own capital, spire-templed Rangoon, is only 700 miles from a Japanese plane base at Pnom-Penh, Indo-China...