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...Cover) The U. S. people have long supposed that they were keeping their Navy in the Pacific to prevent an imperial Japanese grab-for French Indo-China, The Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, the Philippines, all of remote Oceania. Last week it seemed that if the grab was to be stopped, the time for action was the pres ent; the place was the Pacific. It also seemed that the time and the place be longed to Japan...
...Japan was about to grab the Dutch East Indies...
...able to help China more effectively by being polite to Japan than by persistently hurling threats. . . . We may drive Japan into the German-Italian camp. That would make Japan more dangerous to us than it now is. If Hitler should win the war, and especially if he should grab the British Navy as one of the spoils of such a victory, we might easily find ourselves menaced with urgent trouble...
...authority for the Foreign Office, told the country in a radio speech that Japan's policy of non-involvement in the war might soon become one of involvement "in the sense of preventing the spread of the European war to Asia," i.e., in the sense that Japan would grab the Indies and possibly Singapore and French Indo-China if & when they became weak enough to need "protection...
...honors at Philadelphia last week-end, but he jumped the gun once too often and was disqualified. For this reason, he may prove over-cautious and get away from the mark slowly this Saturday. In that event, Macdonald or Smith would have a better than even chance to grab of first place...