JAPAN: No Rats or Crows -- Yet

From a two-story brown brick quake-proof building in Tokyo, a metallic voice addressed the people of Japan one night last week. The voice was Premier Hideki Tojo's. The subject: total mobilization.

Tojo's words could have surprised no one. For months, the official propagandists have been preparing the ground for his speech by emphasizing Japan's difficulties. Yet Japan's man-in-the-street must have been disturbed, for the address contained none of the reassurance for which all men, Japs included, hunger in time of war.

Tojo and his home propagandists had their own reasons for presenting to...

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