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Shanghai, once the very knob of China's open door, was taken over quickly and finally from U.S.-British hands. In the small of the night, Japanese soldiers poured into the International Settlement and along the famous Bund. A Japanese destroyer eased up to the British river gun boat Peterel, fired three red warning lights, a minute later opened fire and set it burn ing blackly. Then the destroyer proceeded 100 yards downstream and captured the U.S. gunboat Wake, which had been partially dismantled and was being used merely as a consular wireless station. The flag of the Rising...
...there were a reasonable government in Japan, there would be a basis for settlement and we would have to make a fair adjustment. However, for the last 10 years the "young colonel" group of Japanese Army officers with dreams of conquest has captured control and stifled all liberal and decent opinion. It is this unreasonable government, which has the same psychology as the Nazis, that we must fight against...
Therefore, we have the twin jobs of resisting the wrong kind of Japanese government and getting ready for constructive settlement with reasonable Japanese when we have won. We have made mistakes and will eventually have to clear out of Asia; however, the Japanese have even less right to subjugate peoples their way than we have...
...similar view was voiced by Eugene D. Keith '42, president of the Student Council, who declared: "As Mr. Hull said, there seemed to be no common basis for settlement. Since each side refused to capitulate, war was made inevitable. Our involvement with Japan means eventually war with the European dictators as well, and the sooner all Americans unite in vigorous support of the war, the sooner it will be over...
...negotiations with Japanese Envoys Kurusu and Nomura, had held at least twelve conferences with the representatives of Britain, Australia, China, The Netherlands-the ABCD powers-when midway in last week's talks he gave the Japanese a written statement of the U.S. principles that must underlie a general settlement. They amounted to the general points on a free Pacific that he first set forth...