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...wrong national idiom, "they will find it is their own necks they are stretching out." Two more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...
...thing which the embargo gave the U. S. for the first time-a bargaining advantage as visible as a point-blank muzzle. Finally, if the U. S. should choose that old Russian game, keeping the potential enemy fighting someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers and most of the Imperial Fleet. Only other way to prolong the deadlock was to end direct aid to Japan...
...needs a great deal of rubber-600,000 tons a year-for elastics, from fingerstalls to truck tires. Practically all (98%) of this rubber is lugged across 8,000 miles of Pacific Ocean from the Far East-British Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...
...cheerily reviewed his studies of raw materials which the U. S. would need and might not have in wartime, said: "The situation . . . is more hopeful than we anticipated six weeks ago. . . ." For an example of heartening speed, he told of hearing about a stock of tungsten and antimony "near Indo-China." The supply was bought, loaded on a U. S. ship, on the way to the U. S. within 48 hours...
...Japanese bombing planes ranged along the Chinese-Indo-Chinese border. On the Chinese side they saw and destroyed 1,500 drums of oil, 50 trucks. Domei, the official news agency, declared that this showed France had broken her agreement to close Indo-Chinese roads to Chinese war traffic. Two days later sensational reports appeared in the Japanese press that the French would soon "invite" Japan to "protect Indo-China against any possible attempts by the United States, Britain or the Chungking Government to interfere with the status...