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...Ja, vi elsker dette landet...
Such a policy would allow Japan to pull many troops out of China altogether and push them toward the coveted Indies. Ja pan's southward push continued hard on the economic front, with the signing in Tokyo of a trade treaty with French Indo-China. It clearly suggested Japan's idea of a New Order in Asia...
...Thimble Theatre, starring Popeye. Thimble Theatre's first cast consisted of gawky Heroine Olive Oyl and her dimwit brother Castor. They straggled along for ten years before Castor Oyl one day in 1929 encountered Popeye on a dock. Cried Castor: "Hey, are you a sailor?" Said Popeye dourly: "Ja think I was a cowboy...
...would gain a powerful friend in the Far East, and would in effect double the strength of our Fleet." Japan likes the U. S. very much. Japan admires nearly everything about the U. S., from baseball to horn-rimmed glasses. Ja pan leaps like a hungry carp at every crumb of friendship the U. S. tosses onto the Pacific. When the President decided to send the ashes of Ambassador Saito home to Japan in the U. S. S. Astoria last year, Japanese almost buried Ambassador Grew's home in presents. It took only a few days, last week...
...friend and confidant of Big-Navy men in Washington is the New York Times's Correspondent Leland C. ("Lem") Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public record: that Japan is building three to four big battleships, somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese...