JAPAN: Prettiest Moment

Last week Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka ended his flying visit to Japan's Axis partners and started home from Berlin via Moscow. It had been an untimely junket. No sooner had the trip been announced than the U.S. Congress passed the Lend-Lease Bill. No sooner had Minister Matsuoka arrived in Berlin than Yugoslavia rose against politicians who had sold out to Adolf Hitler. Before he had arrived in Rome, the British, without losing a life, gave the Italian Navy its worst beating of the war. As he started for home he heard...

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