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...career and power had their foundations in the area where he now waits to strike: in North China, Manchuria and the near borders of Russia's Siberia (see map). There were bred Japanese hates, fears and hopes which only war could release. There too, in a vast segment of the earth almost unknown to the U.S. people, swirled forces which deeply involved the U.S. and, at least in Japanese minds, committed the U.S. to a final war for Asia...
Sharpen the Blade. A unique segment of the Japanese army is the Kwantung army, and Itagaki is its master. He and his companions in conquest shaped it for a single purpose: the extension of Japanese sway over northern Asia. The creation of Manchukuo achieved part of this aim; only attack on Russian Asia can complete the scheme...
...Japanese in danger spots on the Coast was necessary precaution; the Army had no way of knowing, and no time to spare in discovering, who among them were spies and saboteurs. But as the loyalty of individual members of that group became apparent, it became equally obvious that no segment of our population had accepted the hardships of war as uncomplainingly and as gracefully as the Japanese-Americans...
German armies poised on the outer borders of the industrial Donets Basin. But they did not have its mines, power plants and factories, or its roads to Caucasian oil. The Germans had forced a huge segment of Russia's industry back into the Urals, but they had not even won the approaches to that rear reservoir of might, where Russia's armies could be partly supplied even if most of Russia was lost. The Germans had the Crimea, they had Kerch on the Black Sea. But on their anniversary date they did not yet-not quite -have Sevastopol...
...Naval Communications Corps, a unit distinct from all other branches of the Navy now maintaining courses of instruction at Harvard University, will move 800 students into the Yard and the Union at about the same time that the first segment of the Class of '46 enters in June...