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...Citizen Sato-Japan's John Citizen- likes his country's forays into China, its big army and navy, but he never liked the casualty lists, the crushing taxes. He gasped fortnight ago when the Navy asked for its all-time high in budget appropriations: $190,400,000. The Government will not vote on the new budget until next winter. In the meantime it gave the Army and Navy free rein to try to supplant Citizen Sato's fear of taxes with another fear, more favorable to big Navy budgets. For three days last week Tokyo, the world...
...first day Sato quailed as sirens howled over the entire Tokyo area of 5,000,000 people. He trotted to his doorstep with pails of water, set them outside to extinguish imaginary fires. Overhead he saw enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with...
...night attacks the sirens promptly put out every light in Tokyo. The enemy buzzed over a perfectly darkened city, pricked only by purple or red-hooded automobile headlights and red flashlights at important traffic centres. Sato leaned out his dark window, listened in vain for the noise of airplane engines, felt that something big was going...
...commence to disarm unless her security is guaranteed. In Geneva, almost unnoticed last week in London's preparations for the World Economic Conference (see p. 16), the World Disarmament Conference adjourned amid utter gloom to meet again July 3. Up at the last moment popped Japanese Ambassador Naotake Sato to read a 2,000-word declaration from Tokyo...
...Japan is surrounded by water," declared Mr. Sato irrefutably, "and we must think of our special situation." The rest of his remarks amounted to serving notice that when the Conference meets again Tokyo will press for revision of the London Naval Treaty ratio (5-5-3) to give Japan a rating of at least four...