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Startling but not uninformed were comments on the war made on arriving at Victoria, B. C. last week by Journalist Jim Marshall, a survivor of the sunken U. S. S. Panay. Japanese with whom Mr. Marshall talked en route told him they are afraid their country will "crack" this spring, because it has so over-extended itself in China. "In my personal opinion Generalissimo and Mrs. Chiang are all washed up as a dominant influence in Central China," said Mr. Marshall, adding with reference to Japanese overextension: "If the Japanese take Hankow, I am afraid that both China and Japan...
...want and then cease righting, 2 other foreign nations will step in to check the invasion, 3 the League of Nations will be sufficiently effective in taking action that will force Japan to withdraw, 4 the United States will come to his aid because of the sinking of the Panay, 5 in time Japan will defeat herself through lack of resources...
Hiram Johnson is the Senate's Great Isolationist. William Borah is its Great Conversationalist. He had heard of Anthony Eden's pregnant preference to "say nothing" when asked in the House of Commons if Britain and the U. S. were acting in concert after the Ladybird and Panay bombings. He had been even more abashed when the late U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert W. Bingham, had assured a British audience: "If dictatorships are better prepared to begin war, democracies are better able to finish it. Despots have forced America & Britain to undertake rearmament, & having undertaken...
...words Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote to Speaker William Bankhead, such the words Speaker Bankhead read to the House just before it voted on the Ludlow Resolution, calling for a national referendum before declaring war. The letter served its purpose perfectly. The resolution, brought up at the height of the Panay crisis (TIME, Dec. 27), was sent back to committee, presumably to stay, by a vote...
Before the Japanese encircled Nanking, the gunboat Panay-day before it was sunk-evacuated most foreigners from the doomed city and the Chinese defense commander, General Tang Sheng-chi, fled, leaving his officers and men to their fate. During the four terrible days between the departure of the Panay and the arrival of the Japanese fleet, Nanking was a flaming chaos without government, without telephones, electricity or water supply. Not many more than a score of white men, most of them Americans and most of the Americans missionaries, remained during the siege in which the Japanese slaughtered 33,000 Chinese...