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...side of the heaviest battalions, but both sides always claim Him. Last week smooth, pudgy, pipe-smoking Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan, who has never lacked for grandiloquence, issued a gloomy New Year's message which set a new high for God-claiming, seemed to assign the deity a position at the side of, and somewhat inferior to, Yosuke Matsuoka himself...
...sound unlucky," stated Minister Matsuoka, "but in my innermost heart I fear the coming year will prove a most tragic and unfortunate one for all mankind. I pray that God and all God-fearing people will cooperate with me in saving 1941 from being the first year of the decline and fall of modern civilization...
Patriotic Japanese might have wondered just where Foreign Minister Matsuoka left the Emperor of Japan, the "Son of Heaven...
...pussyfooting puller of punches, Editor Smith's first issue addressed Methodist youth under the heading "Toasting Marshmallows While the World Burns." It suggested that "many church services are being defeated by dig-nity," denounced church boards that are more temporal than spiritual, asked whether Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka had forgotten his debt to Methodism, publicized a slump of $481,000 in Methodist world-service benevolences in the united church's first six months...
...Yosuke Matsuoka (Japan's Foreign Minister): "I am not concerned as to who will be the next President of the United States...