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...Washington reported that the U.S. had permitted no crude oil exports to Japan since...
...When Kobayashi opened the negotiations by asking for oil, Minister van Mook explained that he was a member of a Government, not a merchant ; Mr. Kobayashi had better negotiate directly with the oil companies. The companies having been tipped off, Kobayashi managed to get 1,800,000 tons of crude and refined oil, but no aviation gasoline. Then it was revealed that the British had contracted for the Indies' entire high-octane output. Kobayashi discovered that it was necessary for him to return home for the 2,600th anniversary of the Empire's founding. Two months later Yoshizawa...
...provide schools with religion instructors, 2) make religion an optional subject in teachers' colleges, 3) begin daily services in schools, 4) arrange for textbooks on religion, 5) appoint Government inspectors of religion. -Said these signatories: "The present struggle is clearly one between a regime embracing a crude and reactionary paganism, finding expression in material force and destroying truth, freedom and justice wherever its impact is felt, and ourselves and those who have the declared purpose of establishing these more firmly in the common life of the world as the foundation of that new and better social order...
...military camouflage of World War II-let alone World War I-is so crude that it would shame innumerable snakes, caterpillars, birds, fishes. For the unhappy fact is that man has failed to master many of the primary principles of protective coloration practiced by the lower animals...
Other parts of the British Empire have long since rationed gasoline. Canada needs to cut gasoline consumption, which has risen 20% since the war started, because Britain requires not only more oil but also the tankers which formerly carried crude oil to Canada. But Canada's move was not rationing. It made gasoline only a little more difficult to buy. Like Secretary Ickes' efforts to scold the eastern U.S. into using less gasoline, it may have to be followed by real rationing...