Into Yokohama Harbor last week steamed the exchange liner Teia Maru, bringing home some 1,300 Japanese citizens, able & willing to give their Government firsthand reports on how matters stood in the enemy U.S. after nearly two years of war.*
U.S. listeners, monitoring Japanese home broadcasts, found the speeches and newspaper quotations following two main lines: 1) to brace Jap hope, stories of U.S. weakness and disunity; 2 ) to spur the Jap war effort, solemn warnings that vast physical resources make the U.S. an enemy to be feared.
Hard Lines. Tokyo reports...