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...people and their press wallowed in a bitterly helpless wrath exceeding anything since Pearl Harbor. If people had been complacent, they were not now; if they had hated the Jap before, no word was strong enough for their feeling now. From the staid New York Times to the most violent yellow journal, the editors laid on their most desperate adjectives, and none was stronger than the people's feeling. Some people, notably Congressman Ham Fish, even demanded that the U.S. take its turn at cold-blooded killing by reprisals against Japanese prisoners. (Such proposals were as stupid as they...
...Japanese wallowed, too, in the rich depth of the wound they had given the U.S. They had justified the executions easily: the flyers had bombed and strafed civilians, said the Jap. Now they went a step further: Jap broadcasts warned that all flyers who came over Tokyo would get a "one-way ticket to hell"; a Jap newspaper said Japan "has established a new international law in matters of air war." Berlin, unable to export anything but sympathy to Japan, purred approval of the Japanese "precedent...
...General Chennault is doing the best he can, with the little he has, to whittle down Jap air power in China. Last week he revealed a significant fact. To relieve sorely strained U.S. crews and to make up for the lack of sufficient replacements from the U.S., the Fourteenth is absorbing competent Chinese pilots and crews. The General had personally trained some of them. Said he: "I defy the Japs to tell Chinese from Americans in combat...
...Jap morale suffered at first, stiffened in the long...
...Jap Solidarity. The national slogan of Japan, proclaimed last year, at the time of the first Solomons battle, is "A Hundred Year War." The Japanese people unquestioningly accept this prospect of incessant struggle to hold what they have won. They are solidly behind the Emperor and Premier Hideki Tojo, a strong, able and extremely popular man who is a powerful symbol of Japanese unity. Within the country, there is no opposition worthy of the name: the Allies must rely solely on their military power to crush the military power of Japan...