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...challenger to help break the hold on the Far East of the Anglo-U. S. combination, issued its own challenge in shrill but vehement tones. But the Japanese were still far from Singapore, which is Britain's fourth great naval fortress, and from the U. S. base at Manila...
...gaze of the Japanese narrowing southward across the Philippines toward Singapore and the East Indies. Last week the Philippines looked and sounded like anything but a great tension point of the Far East. The defense budget had been sliced in half. Government money was being poured out for beautification. Manila's boulevards were shining with the façades of new public buildings and loud with the riveting of further construction. There was talk of building a resplendent new capitol out in suburban Quezon City. The dining rooms and bars of a huge new jai alai palace were going...
...most of the talk naturally concerned Japan. Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, had decided to evacuate 2,000 Navy wives from the Philippines. He had said, diplomatically, that their husbands would be on patrol duty a great deal. And jittery gossip went around Manila concerning the U. S. Army court-martial of brown, good-looking little Rufo Romero...
...offensive in waters far from home bases could only result in disaster, and any decisive victory might require years of fighting. In spite of our weakness in the Far East, Roosevelt suggested that we might well block a Japanese infringement of our rights by a concentration of ships at Manila, and by threatening to place an embargo on Japan...
...Francisco, American Hawaiian Steamship officials read a logbook entry made by Captain B. Leep of their S.S. Oklahoman: "Left Portland with 10 heifers, arrived Manila with 9 heifers, one cow and bull calf...