Caution walked the streets of Tokyo last week. The little race of Eastern adventurers suddenly swallowed their loud, brave words. Suddenly the people of Japan realized that the world is contagious with wars too big to fight successfully, depressions too steep to contemplate without vertigo, threats too insistent to be whistled down with bravado.
It was hardly necessary for the myopic Japanese to see beyond their noses to realize that their communications, industry and man power were already in the em brace of a seductive war. Coal was short, and winter was near....
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