For some time past not only the Tokyo Government but the Tokyo) War Office has been awake to the realities of the Far Eastern situation and to Japan's unquestioned needs. That blind faith in its own ability to achieve the impossible no Longer exists in this country, although Tingers on in some sections of the defence services and the public at large. There is a full consciousness of the military might - of Soviet Russia and particularly of the Russian war machine in the Far East, There is almost equally rear realization of the remarkable progress that China has made toward political and economic unification, toward preparing itself for armed conflict. There fs, most important of all, the awakening of the higher officers of the Japanese Army to the fact that such'
thing as economies exist and that Unless both nation and Army be on
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