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...meeting Thursday advocates a gigantic bluff on the part of the United States Government. The Group would have the State Department enter the Asiatic poker game using battleships for full houses and airplanes as a straight flush. They would have our government guarantee absolutely to Japan that more moves southward in the direction of Britain's raw material lifeline will not be tolerated...
...Japanese naval plane crashed, killing bull-necked Admiral Baron Mineo Osumi, 64, Japan's Chief War Councilor. Known in Japan as a liberal influence second only to the late Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Admiral Osumi was nevertheless also a stout advocate of the Japanese Navy's southward urge to empire. At week's end Chungking said that the plane had been shot down by guerrilla machine gunners, that the wreckage had yielded papers showing that Admiral Osumi was flying toward Hainan Island, off the south China coast, there to steer the united Japanese south China...
...Army to move from the barren northwestern provinces into the rich Valley of the Yangtze. Fearing that the Fourth Route Army plus the Eighth might be two Trojan Horses in his camp, Chiang ordered General Yeh to march his Army northward out of the Valley. Instead, the Army marched southward. South of the river, it met Chiang's Central Army and somebody opened fire...
President Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines governs his islands like the shrewd little tango dancer that he is. His jaunty administration has helped to convince many Filipinos that they have nothing to fear from the single-lidded gaze of the Japanese narrowing southward across the Philippines toward Singapore and the East Indies. Last week the Philippines looked and sounded like anything but a great tension point of the Far East. The defense budget had been sliced in half. Government money was being poured out for beautification. Manila's boulevards were shining with the façades...
...entire air fleet of American Export Airlines is one twin-engined Consolidated flying boat. Early this week this boat was ready to rise from Lake Pontchartrain's dirty waters, point its nose southward over the green Gulf of Mexico. To outsiders it was the first Government-approved flight across the Gulf, and it presaged triweekly air service between New Orleans and Central America over a new short-cut route. But to insiders it was the bell for Round II of one of the hottest industrial fights since Harriman v. Hill. The fight: American Export v. Pan American...