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...more than ever, the Road was a military "must." The Japanese, with unbroken communications from Manchuria to the South China Sea, were bulging westward. With the capture of Ishan they ousted the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force from another airstrip. Under personal command of scrawny, high-powered Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, the Japanese now headed for the Chinese end of the Burma-Chungking Road. Only 180 miles away, they stood a good chance of cutting the Road below Chungking before the Chinese at the other end opened...
Wiry, honor-hungry General Shunroku Hata had used this and other assets, like superior firepower, with seeming skill and a full appreciation of the weakness of his foe. He split his forces into small columns (the two which crossed the Yellow River numbered only 5,000 men), sent them streaking across Honan's ripening wheat fields. Once his wedges had pierced the outer defense belts, he sent them into mushroom patterns. Result: encirclement of Chinese front-line troops. The advance went...
...bleak Nanking headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Army, thin, razor-keen General Shunroku Hata was brightly confident. He boasted: "As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops." The year...
Climax. This week-sooner than even Prince Konoye had expected-the single party idea became a matter of grave immediacy. General Shunroku Hata, who almost blocked the formation of the Yonai Cabinet single-handed six months ago, broke it by resigning from the War Ministry. His reason: "Japan must take a stronger attitude in East Asia." Early dispatches guessed that either General Hata or Prince Konoye would form a new government, and that in either case, the single party would be jammed into being as quickly as possible. But the manner in which the climax came boded no good...
Last week Japan entered the World War -not explicitly, with a formal declaration and a frontal attack; but deviously, jesuitically, with that unsubtle subtlety which is so peculiarly Japanese. Actually there were two indirect declarations of war: In Tokyo, War Minister General Shunroku Hata told his staff: "We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity." And Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in a radio speech, defined the opportunity as a chance to enforce what Tokyo papers called an "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine": henceforth Japan would not meddle outside Asia, would tolerate no outside meddling inside Asia...