The 400,000,000 Chinese are unbeatable by the Japanese of 1938, for the same reason that they have been unbeatable as far back as history goes. The Chinese people have biologically absorbed and turned into "Chinese" all their many conquerors, of whom the last were the Manchus. Last week Newspundit Walter Lippmann concluded from the fall of Canton and Hankow that "Japan has won the war." but neither Chinese nor Japanese agreed with newsy Occidental efforts to anticipate the ponderous course of Oriental history.
A Japanese who might well have been flushed with double-barrelled...
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