Now even more than before last September Japan is dependent on America as a source of military supplies, and now American producers of raw materials are less dependent on the Japahese market. With the revised American" neutrality legislation and enlarged European demand for oil, scrap fnetals, copper and cotton, an embargo on exports to Japan could be levied with something nearer economic impunity. The British and French have cash and the Japanese, while not yet without gold, are running short of cash. For the first time since the invasion started domestic circumstances will be favourable for cutting off the Japanese from American resources, Of this, too, the Japanese are becoming aware, more particularly Since Ambassador Grew, on his return to Tokyo, has repeatedly de-glared that America does not like Japanese army actions in China. While the United States has not yet announced iís intention of accepting responsibility for preserving the status quo in China while Europe is at war, the inferences from its statements and actions are unmistakable.
They are sufficient to give the Japanese pause, An American embargo, now. practicable for the first time, is a club held over the Japanese. Whatever nap-pens in Europe, it is the most effective guarantee of Japanese moderation, editorials of "The China Journal" Christmas number bear witness to that fect, followed as they are by the "War Diary." But as the, e:
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iX v T fórms of pottery, will lead the thoughts, temporarily at any rate, long MO. animes Command of "A -Magr E S. Barra-into. more normal channels. Battalion Headquarters with effect from "Glimpses. of.. Burma," by the Rev, Dee. 1. Major C. C. Todd relinquishes W. H. Hudspeth, is a brightly written WAS Battalion Head- article illustrated by excellent photographs, Mr. Hubert Freyn deals with the stage, "Tragedy in Western and Chinese Culture," and there, is. a short biography of Dr. Mei Lan-fang rps under "Personalities in the News." Mr. A. S, Loukashkin, of the Harbin t: Museum,, Manchurian. Research. stitute, makes, "Some, Observati upon the. Natural Food of the mur Ring-Necked Pheasant in Northern ion] Manchuria," while "A Day at the Snake Farm in Bangkok," under the eem ache ur Tarate suspi: D Pasteur efforts that are being made. for the protection.of. humanity from the results of attack by venomous reptiles. The editor, Mr. Bruno Kroker, ical China and the
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