Foreign News: Troubled Tokyo

Wrinkled were the brows of Japan last week. To a nation which figured it had learned all about the modern world from having lived in it only 73 years, the world suddenly presented a puzzling aspect. Japan had suffered her worst diplomatic defeat in years, a flat refusal by The Netherlands Indies to recognize Japanese "rights" to abnormal amounts of tin and rubber. The U.S. was suddenly on the aggressive in the Pacific (see p. 37) and two western powers with which Japan had in the past year sealed solemn pacts of friendship and neutrality—Russia and Germany—were suddenly at each other's...

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