Sai and ort, a sli rots soe Prep ceeding eter ooze snpenee pin tae eat sey on Diegcay aeP re, the See seas say or anaes, eae Tianhe nom emperor eter Pet tty Reggie the ce imum se emery isle a the corer mated of tak et wept 2 from In Shing, they seem to be nonplussed and then. fail back on rome absurd mysterious gifts that Heaven is supposed to, sifted only the Japanese with." Writer here waxes sarcastic asks what other civilised people Possess that of the Japanese to be ceive, for, instance, corner of the house or various
The simple truth," he als inhabiting: Fuman_ bod ig that we are st The essayist, then takes a. pot-shot lat wrongly conceived patriot: ism—a very dangerous i 9 Japanese to do at this tim patriotism to the Japanese mind, the writes, "seems to consist of pre~ tending'topelieve in aboard super.
gifts showered on. the
proclaiming spiritual superiority race ann vehemently OF which we do not have the least vestige. The process is one of deliberate, collective elf-fooling and itn being purposefully whetted by the so-calfed nationalists who affect to desplae everyone else, even those countries from which Japan has ceived her greatest gifts. That many fools here accept this hypnosis as real isa matter. of no import-fAnce—except that it is extremely mnggerous for one and all. We Japanese are particularly prone to group. suggestion and cannot Separate the wheat from the chaff."
First Shipment of Soviet Cit 'The first shipment of Soviet oil to Japan, amounting to 11,000 tons, expected "to. arrive here August 4, and a further shipment 6,000 tons some time in Septemnher.' These imports of Soviet oil Were contracted for by Mr. Kojiro Matsukata when on a. recent trip the Kremlin, the underlying idea being. to enable Japan to become Independent of liquid fuel from British and American sources.
The arrival of Soviet oil here is expected to. lead to price-cutting, ut established British and Amer-Petroleum Ca., the Asiatic Petroleum, ican firma, like the Rising Sun Ca. and the 'Standard Oil Ca, confident, that, by virtue of well-developed' distributing sales. organisation, the pete. successfully. "Furthermore, Rae tobe remertbered that teat 'Sr Soviet el coming here will BeNteete it for and that me necessary are them, while the tank of ested Ninn' proper sues: and diteout-Ihe ngeadler will not be an ery (agent from. the expenditare stands to gain—and
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