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Japan and Russia move toward war with all the finality and inevitableness of a Greek tragedy. Yesterday Japan intimated unofficially that friction would be most easily reduced if the Soviet would withdraw the large forces which it has concentrated in Siberia. At the same time, in Moscow, Molotov, Russian premier, declared that the USSR was prepared for a surprise attack by Japan, and, in fact, expected it. Both these declarations by statesmen of countries supposedly at peace have almost no precedent, and show with disconcerting clearness how imminent a possibility is war in the Far East...
...Chinese Eastern Railway by the Japs. Japan, on the other hand, has pursued a course of aggression and opportunism ever since Hay's Open Door policy gave her an opening wedge. With China bound to her by the infamous twenty-one demands, she tried in 1918 to gobble up Siberia, but found herself incapable of digesting such a large bite and was forced to disgorge. Inflamed by a frenzied economic nationalism, Japan apparently now considers herself able to swallow the morsel that stuck in her gullet fifteen years...
...Japan can obviously not be sympathetic with Mr. Roosevelt's impending move; for any enhancement of the political power of Russia will hinder the execution of her designs upon the railroads of southern Siberia. In the event, moreover, of a possible Russo-American coalition, she would be caught in a pair of giant scissors, and could only sit back and make a sour face...
...aggressive nation, Japan. For should our trade with Russia expand (and that is the plum held out by the rotund M. Litvinov), a large part of it might very well be handled from Seattle and ports along that coast to Vladivostok, the outpost city of the Union in lower Siberia. This would undoubtedly be very satisfactory but for one important item: Tokio has its gourmandish eyes strongly focused on Vladivostok and the Maritime Provinces, of which it is the keypoint. Back in 1919, shortly after the war, Japan, who had joined the Allies in intervening against the Red government from...
...water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent him some frozen flesh of a mammoth he had found...