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...China supplies the tinder. Before war is declared a huge Japanese freighter explodes in Culebra Cut, blocking the Panama Canal for months. A Japanese fleet quickly falls on the Philippines, annihilates the U. S. Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from the sky. Rounding the Horn, the U. S. Scouting force encounters two enemy submarines in the Straits of Magellan, losing...
...clear decision, the U. S. suffers a severe and costly reverse when it unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits, losing five capital ships...
Died. Oscar King Davis, 66, oldtime war correspondent, secretary of the National Foreign Trade Council; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y. Trained under the late, great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, he scooped the capture of Guam from a Spanish commander who thought the U. S. ships were firing a salute. He covered the looting of Peking in the Boxer Rebellion, wrote the first eye-witness report of Japan's victory over Russia at the Yalu, was caught in Berlin when the U. S. entered the War. An able political observer, Correspondent Davis was publicity...
...situation could not have arisen." But in Statesman Stimson's argument lay larger undertones than the Nine-Power Treaty. Rehearsing the fact that the Washington Conference also produced the pact which limited capital ships to a 5-5-3 ratio and kept the U. S. from further fortifying Guam and the Philippines, he contended that all these agreements were "interrelated and interdependent" and were designed to produce a "general understanding and equilibrium" in the Pacific. Continued his letter...
...Stimson's most potent threat against Japan and its Shanghai gesture. In non-diplomatic language what Mr. Stimson was really saying was this: Japan has violated the Nine-Power Treaty; if that pact is scrapped, the U. S. would be justified in scrapping the capital ship treaty, fortifying Guam and the Philippines and putting an invincible fleet of battleships into the Pacific. How would Japan like that? Repeated in the Stimson letter was the announcement by the U. S. Government last January that it would recognize no treaty-violating spoils which Japan might wring from China as the result...