Granted security In the West, her easiest line of approach is to select Japan as the first victim. She has had sufficient "sincerity" to decline to enter into non-aggression pacts—for what they are worth—and_ has refused 10 abandon her assistance to China, Mechanized transport has an nihilaied distance and blitzkrieg methods change the fate of countries overnight.
What resistance can Japan offer to a determined attack on Manchoukuo? Her army, according to a distinguished Germsn general who has seen it in action could not stand up against riy Exropean country, Italy perhaps excepted. Her alr force 1s obsolete equipment and negligible in -num= bers. Her Navy, invaluable in a campaign against the long coast line of China, is powerless to intervene against aaland power with all its resources self contained, and able to choose its point of attack,
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