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...second scene was my doctoral oral. For early an hour I wrought havoc among the Indo-European vowels and consonants, like the demented Ajax with the sheep, and though that all was over, Bust across the gloom came a ray of hope in the form of a question from Mr. Kittredge which suggested that the questioner had not yet put on the black...
...Japanese get within 15 miles of Changsha in 1939, then cut them to bits. But he had fought with crack Central Government divisions then. Now some of those troops had been transferred to Yunnan, 800 miles away, to stand guard against the Japanese in French Indo-China. In their place were Szechwanese provincial troops who might blow up in a pinch...
There were other signs that Japan was licking her chops over Russia. In Washington the "exploratory conversations" between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura slowed down, principally over Japan's unwillingness to commit herself against further adventures. Fresh from a tour of southern French Indo-China, Correspondent Leland Stowe reported that Japan held that country with too small forces for offensive operations to the south...
...manpower and successive crop shortages have, since 1939, made Japan a major importer. Last year's emergency need for almost 2,000,000 tons of imported rice (a record figure, one-seventh of Japan's total consumption) was part of the urge that made her seize Indo-China. That need led to such abnormally large Japanese overseas purchases that Thailand placed export restrictions on rice, Burmese politicians urged similar action on their Government...
...Sorry, Impossible. It would take a whopping Japanese backdown, all wrapped up and delivered, to rouse any U.S. interest in a deal which might turn out to be raw. Where could the Japanese back down? Certainly not from Indo-China. The occupation of French Indo-China was the only big Japanese success in nearly two years and was immensely popular in Japan. Last week the Japanese were busy entrenching themselves in their new conquests. The Foreign Office named sage, sharp-faced, experienced Kenkichi Yoshi-zawa Special Ambassador-at-Large (i.e., Gauleiter} to Hanoi. Said he, of Japan and Indo...