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...guise of Allied intervention, they seized Vladivostok, a port worthwhile for itself and dangerously near Japan's home islands. They attempted to lodge their armies deep in southern Siberia, so far north of China and Manchuria that the Russians could never strike through that area at a sphere which Japan held to be its own, or at Japan itself. Thus did the Japs justify this outrageous grab...
...rule, and everywhere the natives looked back on white rule as paradise lost. With occidental markets for their produce cut off, they were thrown out of work by the hundreds of thousands. They starved and grumbled. They saw their rice being snatched for other parts of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere" (i.e. Japan), with Japanese greed heightened by subnormal crops at home. A Japanese problem was to find enough ships to carry the loot...
There was no reason to believe that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was already tottering. It was simply rickety. It would not stand up to a real good earthquake...
...going to profit from Japan's new "Co-Prosperity Sphere" was plain last week to the natives in Japanese-occupied areas of New Guinea. The following Army & Navy proclamations were picked up in Australia: > No commodities may be bought, sold or moved without written permission...
...there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the respective subdivisions will afford a happy issue to the experiment...