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Last week news of the U. S. in foreign affairs jumped to the crisis category. It began with reports of the State Department's reaction to Japan in Indo-China. It ended with news of a world coalition of totalitarian powers directed, for the first time since the Holy Alliance, against...
...first news of Indo-China, there was no preparation for this jump. Since World War II began, U. S. citizens have grown accustomed to a well-grooved pattern of U. S. diplomatic action-condemnations of aggression accompanied, now & then, with reports of new loans to China; the impounding of the assets of conquered nations, together with increasing restrictions on exports to Japan; the strengthening of ties with Latin America, together with reports of increased aid to Great Britain. Such has been the characteristic pattern of U. S. foreign policy: defensive, gloomy, hesitant, and principally concerned with establishing the moral superiority...
...seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
...last week when the Japanese-French agreement on Indo-China forced U. S. action. There was nothing sensational about Secretary Hull's condemnation of the deal. Nor was it exceptional news when, two days later, Jesse Jones announced an Export-Import Bank loan of $25,000,000 to stabilize Chinese currency-for weeks Financier T. V. Soong has haunted Washington, working for a $100,000,000 loan. There was nothing out of the ordinary when President Roosevelt next decreed a complete embargo on shipments of scrap iron and steel to Japan. In the midst of these moves, whose only...
...west by a continuous chain of mountains forming a Great Divide." Tracing this chain of mountains from the Bering Strait southwestward to the Arabian Sea, Nichi Nichi drew a line which almost coincides with the frontiers of Siberia, giving Japan's Greater East Asia all of China, French Indo-China, Siam, Burma and India. The coast line of East Asia, said Nichi Nichi, extends "from Northern Nippon southward to Indonesia, then westward to Ceylon. Asia's history shows how long there has been intercourse along this coast line. No matter how we look at this East Asia...