Caption: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring
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/ r/ ' . .: n th I I China, and also i »ns in Shanghai, > nkii Hani tnd i ntsin; e> n foi i time a iu< i > .it \\ i-1 n ei( op| | a in's hard won bas< I >rt Arthur. And yel the lu littl than 1 is man) a the home | ipulation of fapan! It the English, believed by tin panese I IK- ind< coi r\ tiv< le vin unsystematic, and even ph] II) ind spiritually de dent. C uld ol iin and hold i much, what might not I ne by th [apanese who . unt themselv< en-minded, pr< i\ industrious, rderl] strengthening their bodi< md sharpening their wit Hut what about the new empin l Hitler * Here al the Japan find a m Ul I r imitation. Germany was beaten to her kn< in 191 She was deprived o\ the poor leavings which she h 1 put I iher w h ins a lonial | ions. She .vas reduced in size at h me, burdened with reparation hindered in her trade, and restricted I lu means i defense to a minimum. I hit Germany h been > min .ok under Hitler, by UK § which Japan is well-prepared to duplicate: militar m, unlimited ] nal levotion to th< state, appli< tioi f science to war without hindrance from tradition an 1 blind pride rigi I unified discipline from the cradle to the ..rave, a : rward rge unham] 1 by moral restraint or altruistic inclination, uninhibited pro; g mda and espionage, and a capacity to produce and inipulate numberle cunning machines to move in and under the water, to i iwl or run over the land, and to destroy unpityingl) in >m the air. In N ember, 193 Japan joined with Mussolini and Hitler in the Anti-( mintern 1 ct. which prof< 1 to be aimed at the Communis lea, but ; tuallv was an evidence of < mmon aggn 5ive purpose 1 to despM.il not only Russia. Inn the democratic powers as well. In the spring of 1 41 the Japanese foreign minister. Vusuke Matsuok renew d this pact, and ironically concluded a treaty oi non•n with Soviet Russia. Whether he knew or not that within w 'k> Hitler would strike out fiercely against Stalin, one cannot t pr u \. But both Japan and Russia have in a way profited far: la] n did not strike Russia from the other side; nor when Japan smote the United State unl ih her aircraft the British, and the Dutch, did Russi from Vladivostok against the stick and paper ities of Ja] i Another question which cannot be definitely answered now is whether fapan attack* 1 on December 7 in collusion with Hitler, i :ctl on her own a omit. 1 rhaps she was convinced that Hitler v n n n th e of capturing Moscow, after which the German i though Japan might |a, toward the ilfields of the C a u c a s u s Iraq, and Iran, while ht hope I join her acr both southern and northern A v a . n in. e\ attacks might be only moderately sue fvd, th< >uld be ( d to draw Strength awa\ from th mi f I ermany in her l.attl ngland, of the \tlanti. \n
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