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...three days unrelated events became related. The German hammering at Moscow and the overturn of the Japanese Cabinet foreshadowed a Japanese attack on Siberia. The attack on the destroyer Kearny and the threat of a Japanese-Russian war both raised anew the question of how the U.S. is to get aid to the enemies of Hitler-a question that involves the failure of the U.S. Neutrality...
...avoided. These "concessions" would amount practically to a desertion of Great Britain. But we know that Japan will continue to act as she sees fit, with no regard for American interests. The cabinet shift has placed her even more solidly on the Axis. If Russia collapses, an attack on Siberia would be only the preface to further expansion in the East Indies. We can't appease Japan any more than we can appease Germany. It's time for us to draw a line, and if they cross it, to shoot. The more strongly we assert this, the less chance there...
...Cabinet knew Japan's weakness, feared the air and sea power of the South Sea Allies, the mechanized, air-supported Red Army. To the U.S. the Cabinet was willing to promise hands off the South Seas and Siberia in return for oil and the recognition of Japan's conquests in China. But last week the U.S. was rock-firm in its refusal either to sell oil to Japan or to recognize her conquests. And the Cabinet knew it could not settle for less and survive...
...necessary once again to revise ideas of how the war is going. Britain has shown no signs of being able to resist a major Nazi attack on Africa-either toward Suez or Dakar. Also, if Russia falls, the Japanese are likely to cut loose-falling first on Siberia, later on Singapore, the Indies, Australia...
Certainly not from the Axis. Japan would not dare make a clean break with Berlin as long as there was a chance of Russia's folding up, with pickings for Japan in Siberia...