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...They were designed to intensify the blockade of Free China. Many goods of war and peace had found their way into Free China by way of this unoccupied strip of coast. Domei, the uppity Japanese news agency, said quite frankly that the move was intended to cut off U.S. aid to China. Simultaneously the Japanese resumed bombings of the Burma Road...
Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932-a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist...
...Japanese nation was looking forward to these presents with some apprehension. The official news agency, Domei, assured the people that "his mission to Europe is as peaceful as peaceful can be." Asahi thought it necessary to warn the Foreign Minister that "great prudence and mature consideration are required." Rear Admiral Tanetsugu put Japan's fears in a nutshell: unless Germany and Italy can trap the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, the Admiral wrote, the British Navy will command the Atlantic and the U. S. Navy the Pacific. Then "the new strategy to blockade Japan at a distance...
...retired general, Heisuke Yanagawa, was made Justice Minister, a post hitherto held by trained jurists. Domei news agency, which is seldom wrong about Japanese politics, last week predicted that General Baron Sadao Araki, one of Japan's most notorious firebrands, would soon be given a Cabinet post...
...Japanese bombing planes ranged along the Chinese-Indo-Chinese border. On the Chinese side they saw and destroyed 1,500 drums of oil, 50 trucks. Domei, the official news agency, declared that this showed France had broken her agreement to close Indo-Chinese roads to Chinese war traffic. Two days later sensational reports appeared in the Japanese press that the French would soon "invite" Japan to "protect Indo-China against any possible attempts by the United States, Britain or the Chungking Government to interfere with the status...