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...Tokugawa Era, which began in 1600, Japan withdrew into its shell like a frightened hermit crab. Feudalism was established; foreigners were driven from the country or tossed from mountaintops; Japanese were forbidden to leave Japan. This period, in many ways Japan's greatest and in many ways the shape of things-to-come in 20th-century Europe, ended in 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Perry. The Japanese people, who are by nature the world's cleverest imitators, entered into a new era of imitation of all things foreign...
About 48 hours later they withdrew. The British said the island had been fitted as a seaplane base. Wiping the base out was object enough for the raid. It was, furthermore, excellent practice in landing troops...
Last week, far to the north, the British did it again-this time, on a slightly bigger scale. In foggy weather naval units attacked the port of Svolvoer, in the Lofoten Islands, off Narvik, Norway, and then withdrew. "No military importance whatever," the Germans said; "a propaganda maneuver ... a mere bagatelle ... a typical Don Quixote stroke, which could only be carried out by a country sunk as low as England...
This week, as suddenly as they came, Japanese forces withdrew, communiqueing that they had destroyed "transportation bases." Unofficial reports claimed that they had also captured $2,000,000 worth of supplies. Translated into Chinese, this read that, fleet or no fleet, the outnumbered Japanese had simply been pushed right back into...
World War II quaked her world, as all worlds. Fissures cracked labor; Communism split youth movements; wrath against aggressors blotted up pacifism. Some time ago Mrs. Roosevelt quietly resigned from the Spanish Rescue Ship Mission, withdrew from the American Youth Congress, apparently determined to withdraw from all Communist-tainted organizations. But Mrs. Roosevelt still had a smile for organized Labor. She spoke to a mass meeting of strikers of the Leviton Mfg. Co. plant in Brooklyn, said: "I am afraid I agree with you," thus helping to rouse a new surge of strike enthusiasm...