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of Libya. In any case Japan and Germany can I r | temporarily as friends, since in the longer view th< rivals -r the control of the world, and thus are potential enemi Japan is in a very different position from Mu olini • n Hitler. The Italian dictator has fail< I i >mpletely in Ethiopia, d has been n ued in Albania. Greece, and Libya only b; I lern n arm and men. His country is practically under German o upal >n < Italian bl< d flows in Russia for Hitler and not at all >r Mu >lini. J a ] 1 carves for herself. She hopes to be me so v 11-1 rtified i 1 \sia that a successful Hitler could not dislodge her. Thus both older and newer empires S rv 1 Japan ; models an < incentives for her own imperialism. VII. Another underlying cause of Japan's -reible action is that she h >een hel *d and strengthened negatively and even positively by thos who now her enemies. The Brit >h, American, and Dutch i rnments have regularly rtlowed their citizen-, unl 3 expressly forbidden in time ( actual or closely approaching war, to sell anything to anybo for profit. In his way the Ja; se have been plied with nearly all the materials he in 'W i 3 in the war. At int( vals since 1931 and more frequentl e Japan attackI na ra July 7 1937. the American government, through the Presid v the retaries f state, and other officials, has objected t J ?;gr ssi( n, and called ttention to a er cour of < in ac ith internal -nal law and sj ecific tr But the An ri< vernmer. cor: I in its vit pi Itly shut its e the st :' aggi e war which Ja] n makiii U] n China. i its itizens to 1 to Ja; I vast 1 • * r m; m .eluding especially milliK1 5te lilli n tl in the that by II Ameri in tr.. lition the »r uld be intry whi h HI hina \ it5 lom reign »nqu 1 be ted. A r* h; upon 1 not kn | thot h a few i that I n \ ng onlj iii id the J n er w ith in n\ it ur h. »il ri ii It Ii | \ r moral h« ir id to a 1 1 « the rl reaction to the Ja i i 1 1 i 1 \i wh