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JAPAN
TURNS
A
TO EXAMINING U.S. ATTITUDE
ONE WINTRY MORNING a slight, spare Japanese stood alone before the snow-mantled tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D. C., where he reverently clapped his hands and offered a sin- cere Shinto prayer. Then, ignoring the cold, he silently removed his overcoat, doffed his hat, and climbed slowly up the stone stairs to worship.
are
• This
"Unknown Soldier," he whispered, "I trust you know who is this Oriental offering a prayer at your tomb. Twenty years have passed since you were sacrificed on a European battlefield.
"When politicians
trying: desperately to get big hands and attempting In become heroes of journalism. you silent vietinis sacrificed your lives for the cause of nations, as God only knows.
"It must be a wonderful thing to be known only to God.
"For Japan, I hope sincerely many persons would known only to God."
that
Returns To Tokyo
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astonished him, since foreigners in Japan usually are required to report departures from the city where they live, must register with the police, provide pictures, and register
their addresses.
Hashimoto writes in detail of the plenty which surrounded him, be and no wonder, for in Japan now there are lines of people waiting to buy bread from the bakeries, and frequently they don't get it. rice is strictly rationed, every Now this Japanese, Tetsuma Scrap of old iron is saved and con- Hashimoto, has returned to Tokyo tributed to the government and a and he is writing his impressions little extra sugar in the house- of an America teeming with de- hold is something to boast about. fense activity for the powerful industrial newspaper, "Chugai,”
It is not as though Hashimoto member of the Japan- America society, a chap friendly
was
years.
"Scrap iron is seen everywhere in America," he writes, “America has no time to pay any attention to old things. She advances with new things. I told u friend, of i mine it would be easy for Japan
Japanese Too Impatient
NAILS IN
THE BELFRY
A Rumanian drove a nail into his head to relieve a headache. Though the nail was 4in. long, he only in- jured an eye nerve and his wound healed in ten days.
No sooner had he left hospital than he drove in another nail to prevent another headache, but this time he seriously in- jured his brain and is not expected to live.
'TIP AND RUN' RAIDER
RUNS TOO LATE
A Dornier 17, which was on its way to this country for a raid was intercepted before it could reach the coast by the pilots of two Hurricane fighters.
to the United States through the, and the United States to be friend- ly and cooperate An exchanging Instead he is
leader of The what they have. Shiungo, a resolute right wing group, and the more fact that these articles are appearing in print, let alone being written,
The Hurricanes, outward bound is a straw in the wind of what
"But Japan may not be able to on an offensive patrol, saw the apparently is happening In use America's abundant natural German bomber approaching the Tokyo.
resources ALS long as the two coast and attacked it from op- Hashimoto spent many weeks nations are opposing each posite sides. Then they swept down touring through the United States, other, In my opinion the Japan-on it from above, raked the length from coast to coast, and north ese are too impatient. They are of the fuselage and then attacked and south, as а member of a mad because America has so again at point-blank range. three-man economic group. While much of natural richness and re- All this time the bomber's rear- he says nothing about the persons sources. The Japanese are too gunner returned their fire with with whom he talked, he definite- envious."
more energy than accuracy, while ly conferred with some of the Hashimoto turns from his des- the pilot turned his machine to- most powerful business, financial cription of the economic wealth wards the land. To aid his escape. and government leaders in both of America to his experiences at he jettisoned his bombs in the Washington and New York. the inauguration of President sea.
Throughout the late months of Roosevelt, and there again he The German then tried to glide 1940 and in the early part of the found a sentiment entirely differ over the sea to 1pake a safe land+ year, the vernaculars have been ent from what he had expected, ing ashore, But his damaged ma- beating the drums of antagonism. Hashimoto. said he naturally chine failed to stay the course, and A significant change has taken thought. California, "the cradle of with a splash the Dornier glided place within the month, of which the anti-Japanese movement," straight into the water. It disap- Hashimoto's reasoned,. impartial would, be, antagonistic, but my peared in exactly ten seconds. analysis is typical.
expectation again proved - errone- When the fighter pilots return- ous. Of course Japanese firms are ed; one of them found that the suffering from regulations enforced German rear-gunner had: put a from the standpoint of national bullet through, his tallplane. The policy, particularly since the con-other machine was undamaged. clusion of the tripartite pact.” “
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Marvels At Police Hashimoto told how at first he was a bit put out by the thorough- ness of the police at San, Fran- The conclusion Hashimoto in- cisco, where they examined his evitably reached after his visit FINNS URGED TO FISH shoe soles and: scams. of his cloth- was that; based on how he per- ing, but afterwards, he said he sonally, was received, and® wel- As Finland's supply of meat is concluded this was all right,, for comed, there is no antagonism expected, to be exhausted, Dr. after all he was a member of a toward the individual Japanese Ryt, President of Finland; asked mission there to inquire into in- in the United States, but that the his Parliament to pass a law ¡¡dustry.
two governments are in a "head-granting every citizen the right "From then on," he writes, "we long collision: position"--Associata | to fish in any waters.--Associated
Press. were-nover visited by the police."lied Press: