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Perhaps Japan's desire for two weeks more of Washington talk was merely to allow herself a fortnight's more preparation in Indo-China. On the other hand, New York Times Tokyo Correspondent Otto Tolischus last week reminded his readers that Japanese statesmen are not the feverish windbags that the West often pictures them, that "they are hard-headed realists who regard politics as 'the art of the possible.' . . . That is why Japan has often retreated in the face of overwhelming force, but has never lost...
...Blum and Maurice Gustave Gamelin had been held at Riom, charged with the guilt of France's destruction. Now, with their trial fixed for Jan. 15, they were sped by automobile south to Portalet Fortress. There, two days later, they were joined by two other statesmen of the French Republic: Georges Mandel and Paul Reynaud...
Alternatives: Peace. If Japan were ready to abandon the Axis and conduct a face-saving withdrawal from China, there would be advantages of peace as obvious to Japanese statesmen as to the U.S. To the U.S. they included resumption of trade with Japan, freedom to use the Pacific Fleet in the Atlantic. To Japan they included resumption of trade with the U.S. (access to the oil and other raw materials that Japan badly wants) and an alliance against Germany's world aims, which are a threat to Japan...
...Last summer, in spite of technology and economics. Japan's silk trade with the U.S. was still lively. Then it bumped smack into U.S. foreign policy. The silk crisis, like every other great factor in Japanese life, fell hard into the khaki laps of Japan's Army statesmen...
Snag Boat. Next Henry Shreve went after other barriers: the snags that imperiled navigation for 1,500 miles. "For years boat owners and settlers who had lost their craft or goods had pleaded with Congress to do something about the driftwood menace. The bewildered statesmen could offer no help. It was considered impossible to dislodge the enormous timbers: trees whose roots had dug deep into the stream bottom . . . were packed down with tons of silt. ..." Shreve disagreed. He had invented a "heavy-timbered, twin-hulled snag boat" to do the job. He wrote the War Department, offering to submit...