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...down his newspaper and started thinking about this suicide business. According to some reporter the Jap pilots were diving their airplanes onto the deck of our boats like human bombs. Just as they had used those human dynamite charges at Shanghai to break up Chinese barbed wire. Vag shuddered. He tried to imagine himself as the pilot of a bomber, poised high above a sleek, tall ship of war carrying the white banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow...
...they are not alone: four other Americans and one Briton similarly threatened have dug in their toes, strapped on guns, and called the Jap bluff...
...typical attitude toward China since the Jap invasion has been the usual friendly American sympathy for the underdog. But now our interest in China goes much further than this. Now the top dog is snarling at us, and every intelligent news reader knows what a tight spot we shall be in if the underdog relaxes his grip...
...Jap buying increases, R. R. C. can still protect itself. When the price stays above the legal 20? for a reasonable period (two or three weeks) R. R. C. may invoke its contract with the Dutch-British rubber cartel, International Rubber Regulations Committee, which controls 97% of the world supply. I. R. R. C. will then be obliged to boost its quotas to the U. S., send the price down to where R. R. C. can enter the market again. This week, unscared R. R. C. announced that it would buy another 180,000 tons of rubber next year...
Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...