INTERNATIONAL: Preparations for Armageddon

Said the Tokyo newspaper Miyako last week: "It no longer is a crazy dream to expect a great war with Japan, Germany, Italy and Soviet Russia on one side and the United States, Great Britain and China on the other." Other newspapers echoed the thought. The war, they said, would begin before June.

This warning was based on sound reasoning from known facts. Everybody knew that Japan was beginning to act on its neutrality pact with Russia by intensifying its war against China, by preparing a force-supported diplomatic drive against U.S., British and Dutch interests throughout the Far East (see...

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