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Reporting on the Sphere's recent expansion, Premier General Hideki Tojo advised that Russian territory was not expected to receive the benefit of further expansion for the moment: "Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union have undergone no change. . . . With progress of the war, enemy countries will, I presume, intensify their efforts to alienate Japan and the Soviet Union, but there is no chance for such intrigues to bear fruit so long as the Soviet Union firmly maintains the attitude mentioned...
...Premier Tojo went on to recommend India's cooperation in the Sphere: "Since all the outpost bases of the British Empire for defense of India are in the possession of Japan, the golden opportunity is offered to the Indian people to rise and obtain their liberty. . . ." Premier Tojo suggested that the Indian people eject British and American troops from India. "As long as [they] remain, Japan is inflexibly determined to annihilate them...
...regret, it is unavoidable that in the course of such a campaign the innocent Indian people would also be made acquainted with the horrors of war." Premier Tojo described Australia as "the orphan of the Pacific," declared she was "now helplessly expecting Japan's attack after the battle in the Coral Sea wiped away naval units put up for the defense of Australia...
...Watching Tojo. But from the north more menacing news sifted down into Sydney's bars and restaurants. Back of his screen of islands the Jap was massing again, at Rabaul in New Britain, at Lae and Salamaua on the east coast of New Guinea, and at more remote points in the Indies. Douglas MacArthur's airmen, after a full share with the Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, went back to work on the Jap's hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north...
...Empire's power was manifest. The war might be long, as Premier Tojo warned, but the tide of defeat had turned and was now a thunderous southward surge of victory. The Emperor had even deigned to show himself, astride his white horse, to receive the banzais of his subjects. In the parks of Tokyo, the people thrilled to brass bands blaring the fervent strains of Kimigayo...