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...wedding trip after only three days, Marine Corps Captain Jimmy Roosevelt hove wanly to, with his bride in tow, in San Francisco. "It's pretty tough to have to break up a honeymoon like this," declared Jimmy, "but duty is duty." Duty: to Clipper at once to the Orient, leaving his bride behind...
WASHINGTON--Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., charged tonight that United States warships are being sent to Australia and New Zealand "to reinforce the British in Singapore and other parts of the Orient...
...with their hands tied to the Axis, could hope only to lose as little as possible; while Thailand, easily egged into the war by Japan, could hardly hope to control whatever it won. Only likely winner was Japan, whose sword-rattling, fleet-maneuvering "mediation'' set all the Orient abuzz, and who will presumably dominate any areas ceded to Thailand...
Quentin Roosevelt '41, who has recently been in the Orient, was in sympathy with Dr. Fairbank, and feels that what may appear to be immediate trouble is really only part of Britain's strategy--one which she must use because of her relative weakness in the East...
...pressure is applied she will be compelled to take certain measures." For the chauvinists, Tokyo Kokumin shrilled that U. S. activity in the Pacific was "approaching a state of war." For the realists, Japanese correspondents in French Indo-China stated: "Japan will move against Anglo-American interests in the Orient and the Dutch East Indies, first attacking Singapore...