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Japanese incredulity was based on years of painful experience in which it nearly always turns out that Chinese outsmart Japanese until the sons of Nippon bring up overwhelming force. Premier Koki Hirota of Japan has just had his Cabinet publicly spanked by the Privy Council for having baited Stalin and made a pact with Hitler (TIME. Dec. 7). Last week Mr. Hirota was able to advise the Son of Heaven that in China events were transpiring which could only mean that the Japanese Cabinet had been right and the Privy Council wrong. Nearly all Japanese were entirely convinced that what...
...fall of 1934 the Mitchellmen played Waseda in Nippon on which occasion the Americans were buried 17-2. At the time of next month's encounter the Orientals will be winding up a schedule which calls for games at Boston College, Thursday, June 4, Providence the seventh, Yale the eighth, Princeton the tenth, and Boston University the thirteenth...
Baba. In Tokyo the new Finance Minister, successor to assassinated Greatest-Japanese-Finance-Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, is that departed statesman's wily stooge, Mr. Eiichi Baba. As governor of the Government-controlled agricultural bankers' bank the Nippon Kwangyo Ginko since 1927, ingratiating Eiichi Baba has made the most of opportunities to become friends with the Radical-Militarists. The Army is almost entirely of peasant stock and absolutely resolved that exploited and oppressed Japanese rustics shall now get their innings. In Tokyo last week it was considered more than likely that wily Stooge Baba had sold the Army some...
...First or Third Regiment of the Tokyo Division, he was probably one of the dastards and not a regular army man. With the Empire cut off from the world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon (as Japanese poetically call their Empire) faced the World with a blank wall of sheer Mystery. In Washington the State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador...
Japan will not change. Neither will the West, which feels as justified by logic in its position as a man 'talking reason' with a high-strung woman. . . . Nippon, the most feminine-minded nation, may yet accomplish what Alexander, Caesar, Genghiz, Charlemagne, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II failed to accomplish." Far Eastern Front by Edgar Snow (Smith & Haas, $3.75) "A visit to India, to Japan, to the Philippines, leaves you suddenly with the conviction that in many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably...