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...greater step to power was taken by a Japanese. From behind his horn-rimmed glasses and the ack-ack of his cigar smoke, Premier Hideki Tojo emerged as a character worthy of his nickname: The Razor. He, like Stalin, was tough. So were his people. He took the major political risk of the year in tackling Britain and. the U.S., and, for the year, it turned out to be a good speculation. His armies conquered Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma. Never in history had one nation conquered so much so quickly. Seldom...
Premier General Hideki Tojo, on the anniversary of the Italian-German declarations of war upon the U.S., boasted that rubber, tin and other resources captured in the South Pacific were being used effectively to prosecute the war. "I think it a pleasure," said he, "that we can contribute these resources to Germany and Italy...
...Tojo's implication that such raw materials were reaching Nazi Europe in quantity had a kernel of truth despite the strain on Japanese shipping (see below). The first considerable Japanese shipment, mostly rubber, reached Germany last summer. Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare believes the cargo was sailed from Indo-China to West Africa and transferred to small coastal craft; by night these vessels ran the blockade to French Mediterranean ports...
...occupation of North Africa has complicated the German-Japanese task. But there still are Portuguese and Spanish ports through which Tojo's boast could become grimmer truth...
...Tokyo admitted the loss of 65 merchantmen. The U.S. claimed 108. But Premier Hideki Tojo, warning the Japanese that their shortage of shipping is serious, described Japan's sea problem in terms much like those which the U.S. Navy uses on the same subject. Said Tojo: "The success or failure of southern reconstruction [in the conquered Pacific areas] depends chiefly ... on the efficiency of water transportation. . . . Japan does not have surplus vessels, for Japan must maintain transportation within the extensive area of the Greater East Asia sphere, while she must [also] continue her gigantic [war] operation, continuously fighting...