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...North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek on a basis of American mediation, withdraw from all China south of the Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal U.S. -Japanese trade relations, Anglo-American recognition in principle of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, U.S. economic assistance to Japan...
...right, and now here is a nation called Japan. Whether they had at that time aggressive purposes to enlarge their empire southward, they didn't have any oil of their own up in the north. Now, if we cut the oil off, they probably would have gone down into the Dutch East Indies a year ago, and you would have...
...intentions was made by Minister to Australia Tatsuo Kawai, who does not mind being photographed in his pajamas or under the shower. Minister Kawai announced in Adelaide that he was tired of hearing the word "drive" to describe Japan's intentions. Asked whether Japan would move southward as far as Australia, Mr. Kawai said that would depend on the provocation. Asked whether Australia had been provocative, he said there had been a few pinpricks. Asked whether Japan desired territorial expansion toward the Indies, he said territorial expansion was an old-fashioned phrase...
...Japan was now preparing for dramatic action. Although the hard-headed soldiers who run Japan knew better than to bind themselves to any oversimple, irrevocable decision of action, the courses open to them were few-and all dangerous. They included: 1) a new major campaign in China, 2) a southward drive, 3) a jackal attack on the rear of the Soviet Union while Germany drains Russian strength in the west. Best...
...which since the Japanese annexation of Korea has become the "dagger pointed at the heart of Japan." There lay the Maritime Provinces of the U.S.S.R. and, inland, all of Siberia that a hungry Japan could swallow. The prospect was enough to make the Japanese militarists temporarily forget all about Southward Ho! Furthermore, if Germany takes western Russia, Japan may have to invade Siberia in self-defense...