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...request of ex-Director Milton Stover Eisenhower (brother of the General) of the U.S. War Relocation Authority. Council finances come from private sources. Council director is white-haired, 66-year-old Carlisle V. Hibbard, who has Japanese lore (he spent a decade in Tokyo, a year in Jap-held Manchuria) and relocation experience (he worked with World War I prisoners of war). Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy sees in the Council a way to "compensate loyal citizens of Japanese ancestry for the dislocation ... by reason of military necessity." Some citizens thus compensated...
...bill "relative to conscription in Manchuria" indicated that Japan, for the first time, is preparing to draft Chinese into Japanese armed forces or into labor battalions, or both. This measure may well have been a part of Japan's effort to convince the Chinese that they will have a coequal place in the Greater Asia...
Quid pro Quo. Russia's attention may well focus on the Far East. Stalin may ask for "an independent Soviet Republic of Manchuria, affiliated with the U.S.S.R.; a similar Republic of Korea; and even, perhaps, the Northwestern Chinese Soviet Republic of Sinkiang, Ningsia and Shensi." Russia, said Duranty, wants control of West Pacific ports, has no love for Japan and will be willing to cooperate in "our death stroke" against the Japanese when the U.S. puts into action "a really powerful force of airplanes...
...Japanese know Dr. Shuhsi Hsu. He has been needling them since long before the invasion of Manchuria. He has written 17 volumes on Far Eastern Affairs, which have rebutted Japanese misrepresentations from Geneva to Washington. Western nations have learned by now that when Dr. Hsu speaks he knows what he is talking about. They also know that he speaks the truth as he sees it. Last week Dr. Hsu spoke again...
Beginning with Manchuria, the picture swiftly telescopes the transformation of China's millions into an army. While cities are levelled and as many as a thousand Chinese are killed in a single hour, millions crawl westward along the roads. In the interior mountains they build underground factories, train troops, organize men, women & children to defend their nation. When at length Japan attacks the U.S., U.S. officers go to China to learn from experts how to fight Japs. In China they find "the very pattern of a modern fighting state...