Word: domei
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...Thailand's Premier, Luang Pibul Songgram, who sent, according to Domei, a congratulatory telegram to Japan's Premier Tojo on Japan's "splendid achievements in the first few days...
Treaty obligations shelved for the moment, verbal sword-rattling continued apace in the Japanese press. The official Domei news agency predicted that the Diet's extraordinary session on Nov. 15 would find Premier Hideki Tojo detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet...
Until two years ago Reuters got substantial revenue from the worldwide sale of news. War has cut off its market in Europe and China and has forced it to meet subsidized competition of Axis news agencies (DNB, Stefani, Domei) elsewhere, particularly in South America. War vastly increased the cost of coverage for Reuters as it has done for all press associations...
...move to the south. The press started a campaign designed to show that Great Britain, the U.S. and Chungking were plotting the "encirclement" of Japan. There were hints that Thailand, which had a mild domestic crisis last week, might need Japanese "protection." Pointing straight at the easiest mark, Domei accused French Indo-China of persecuting pro-Japanese Annamites, of maintaining "close economic, military and political relations with Great Britain and the United States." Domei called for "counter-measures." The Japan Times and Advertiser, Foreign Office mouthpiece, said flatly: "If the alarming picture of anti-Japanese operations in Indo-China...
...Germany felt about the treaty was brought home to the Japanese people by none other than Germany's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder. Timing an exclusive interview with Domei's Berlin Correspondent Susumu Ejiri so that it was published the day before President Franklin Roosevelt's fireside talk this week, the Admiral issued a warning to the U.S. that was, by inference, also a warning to Japan...