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Nobody ever accused Japan or Germany of having a sense of humor; and only they could have staged the puppet show that amused the world last week. One by one Germany's battery of stooges-Rumania, Croatia, Slovakia, Italy and Bulgaria-announced they would recognize Japan's Wang...
Not in his own capital, Nanking, where he rides between rows of guards who watch for assassins, but in Tokyo last week Wang rode beaming past 50,000 admiring people from the railroad station to his Puppet Embassy. They waved flags, they shouted "Banzai!" Wang doffed his plug hat.
From the mouthpiece of a mouthpiece, Puppet Wang's Finance Minister Chou Fu-hai, came the real reason for Wang's junket, the act behind the ballyhoo. It took the form of three suggestions that were certainly not impure ideas. Chou hoped that Japan would: 1) extend Nanking...
Oddly enough these were much the same moves that Japan's Ambassador to the Nanking Government suggested to Japan a month ago.
Japanese militarists smacked their lips over the information that the French Indo-China Government was building a "commercial" seaplane base eight miles below Saigon-only 675 miles from Singapore. Russia added to the encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new...