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Peace? . . . Still shrouded in secrecy last week, still unanswered, was Prince Konoye's personal note to President Roosevelt. From Washington, however, came a report giving one version of the Japanese aims in current negotiations. Premier Konoye, it said, had assured President Roosevelt of his desire for peace, requested economic...
Shanghai is two cities: one a sprawling, sinful Oriental beehive of nearly 3,500,000 Chinese, the other the 60,000 foreigners living along the Whangpoo in the snug, smug plutocracy of the International Settlement and the more raffish French Concession. Since the Japanese took over the Chinese city in...
Next Move? If Japan was still unready to undertake war with Russia by attacking Siberia, and wished to avoid the war with Britain and the U.S. that would follow an attack on Singapore or the Indies, her most likely next move would seem to be on Thailand. Under pressure, the...
"He handed me over to his Chinese muscle-men-picked for their great size and strength-and told me that I must confess that night. . . . The strong-arm men removed me to the torture room, and the inquisition-which was to last all night-began. First I was beaten repeatedly...
Japan. Glory wears thin against the grindstone of saddened days. It was all glory in Tokyo four years ago as the war for Asia burst. "Without cessation," wrote an American correspondent, "from 5 a.m. till noon . . . departing troops rode to military barracks in trucks, busses, streetcars and taxicabs, completely blocking...