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Narrow Roadway. The mere fact that Japan had asked for a meeting was a diplomatic victory for the U.S. Where solemn words and warnings had failed to halt Japanese aggression in the Orient, bold acts had prevailed. By strangling Japan's trade with the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt had suggested to the Japanese that it might be a good idea to pause and talk things over...
...while all this made Chiang Kai-shek beamish with joy, Dan Arnstein's mission was scarcely a flawless triumph. Knowing little, caring nothing about protocol and the sanctity of face in the Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats squirming in suspense. Once, when a secretary from the U.S. Embassy inquired fretfully why he had not called on Ambassador Clarence Gauss, only the Chinese guests seemed to enjoy his typical retort: "Why should I?" snapped Arnstein. "I don't know...
...saving of the Far East is another matter. In the Orient the U.S. is not an unarmed nation; its naval muscles command from Japan a respect which Hitler does not grant the U.S. military muscles. Toward Japan Welles has had a clear policy of distrust. But again he has been an "appeaser," because he has consistently favored trading with Japan until the U.S. is ready for any consequences. Last week he had come to the bottom of the diplomatic barrel. There were almost no diplomatic moves left unmade. The problem of the Japanese would sooner or later be turned over...
...completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold leaf of the parroquia came from the Philippines...
Over these island stepping-stones the U.S. was forging a chain about the Japanese Empire. One after another for months PBY flying boats have flown into the Orient. Hundreds of U.S.-made planes are poised on Dutch airfields in the Indies : Martin bombers, Curtiss pursuits. Singapore hangars are filling with Lockheed Hudsons and Brewster Buffalos...