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...cope with the Japanese, what to do about aid to Britain, how to protect their investments (missionary enterprise) abroad, how to cooperate with other churches. Like the U. S., they also have domestic problems: the financing of a crisis-upped budget, family relationships, youth problems, how to safeguard their conscientious objectors and support U. S. preparedness. Above these rises the crucial spiritual question of how Episcopalians, along with other churches, can make Christianity once again the cornerstone of the American life...
...Viacheslav Molotov. British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps got busy. Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard her northern frontier while she conquers Greater East Asia. Comrades Stalin & Molotov said nothing. Well they know that, while Russia's interests lie with a victory of the London-Washington Axis, the Berlin-Tokyo Axis has the U. S. S. R. also encircled...
...witlessness and later through helplessness had done considerably more to smooth the path of Japan. The Open Door was closed now, perhaps forever. Britain and France had ceased to exist in the Chinese reckoning. There was talk of the U. S. Navy occupying the British base at Singapore to safeguard democratic interests in the Far East. But a cargo of San Francisco's old streetcar tracks was about to leave the U. S. last week to make more guns to kill Chinese. In Chungking, America had become only an expression of distaste...
This should be neither bar nor safeguard to most young men: conscripts can be blind in one eye, partially deaf in both ears, minus one big toe or two little ones, and still be technically eligible...
...Naval, military and air forces must be completely demobilized and disarmed, with the exception of troops needed to preserve order. Except for such portions as are needed to safeguard French colonial possessions, the Fleet is to be collected in specified ports-under the assurance that Germany will not employ it for its own purposes, except for coastal surveillance and minesweeping. No Frenchman may serve against Germany in the service of other powers...