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Japan reacted to the embargo violently, but alert Foreign Minister Matsuoka was a jump ahead of his own countrymen. He instructed Ambassador to the U. S. Kensuke Horinouchi to call on Sumner Welles and lodge a protest. He instructed Spokesman Suma to use strong words. That master of anticlimax told reporters: "Our reaction will be very great." But the most serious thing Yosuke Matsuoka did was to let word get about that Japan might have to retaliate by cutting off U. S. supplies of rubber and tin from the East Indies...
...into a bad one. He immediately issued an angry statement: "Should Britain try to link the question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons, a long-standing sympathizer with China, Liberal Geoffrey Mander, complained so bitterly about the smell...
During this interval Hitler's obvious move is to protest his friendship for the U. S.; to seek loans from the U. S., arguing that he needs reconstruction help in order to live in peace in Europe; to invite the U. S. to enter into as much friendly trade as will supply him with strategic materials he needs; to prosecute trade and political penetration in South America in order to prepare for his ultimate attack-and perhaps to subsidize a few Nazi revolutions; even to promise to make a lasting peace with the U. S. on condition that...
Perennial problem of the Friends, who are militant pacifists, is War. Last week they reaffirmed their pacifism, told young Friends how they could avoid military drill at college,* sent Quaker Paul Comly French to Washington in vigorous protest against the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill now before Congress...
...with her minuscule Army, insignificant Air Force, and practically nonexistent Navy, she was determined to fight off invasion from every side. England, separated by less than 75 miles of water, was more uneasy about the Irish than at any time since 1938, when, over Churchill's violent protest, Neville Chamberlain had voluntarily evacuated the British naval bases in Eire. From Brittany German planes could hop to the centre of Eire without crossing English territory. The I. R. A., a well-organized and experienced fifth column, was responding to Nazi agitation, accepting German equipment and funds. The aggressive German Minister...