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Last week Clark Lee was in Manhattan, awaiting passage overseas for his next chosen assignment ("My ambition is to get to Berlin"). Behind him were Australia, the Solomons, a torpedoed aircraft carrier and a book (They Call It Pacific). Ahead was a projected itinerary that most reporters dream about. Lee...
"Shiggy," as U.S. newsmen dubbed him, clattered rapidly up the diplomatic ladder. He established himself as an authority on Chinese affairs, furthered Japan's encroachment upon China. Later he became Ambassador to Moscow, where he negotiated a settlement of a famous Russo-Japanese border clash at Changkufeng Hill in...
Last week Japan's Premier Hideki Tojo exhibited his Chinese puppet government to Axis diplomats. In Nanking, Tojo ordered 35 mosquito boats to fire a 21-gun salute. Japanese and puppet Chinese troops paraded on the third anniversary of Traitor Wang Ching-wei's Nanking regime.
To the world, Tojo was signaling the fact that island Japan had become a continental power. The Japanese had begun to withdraw some of their own troops from China, replace them with thousands of Chinese, sometimes under Japanese officers, often under Chinese officers from Manchukuo. The Nanking government is now...
China's Punch. Behind these fronts, Japan is busy. Three weeks ago Premier Tojo paid a flying visit to Puppet Wang Ching-wei in Nanking. There plans were laid for the use of occupied areas as a weight to drag down the free areas. Where as China once used...