JAPANESE BOMBAST
described as bluff
SRANG HVI PUBLISHER
Calling Japan "the Power most over-rated by everyone on earth except her own shrewd leader," Mr Cornelius Starr, publisher of the Shanghai Evening Post, described recent outbursts by Japanese statesmen as "bombast." "Notwithstanding thcl'-e outbursts" added Mr Starr, "Japan will in no circumstances risk actual Avar with America. "BlufT is Japan's principal weapon and foreigners' impressions of her strength is largely the result of lier clever propaganda. "General von Falkenhausen " told me before his recall to Germany that Japan ,vas not even a thirdclass Power and scarcely a fifth-rate one. "The financial weakness of Japan needs no comment beyond the fact that the official yen rate of 23 cents to the yen contrasts with the black rate of six cents. '"The army took three months to wrest. Shanghai from badly-equip-ped Chinese who lacked both artillery and aeroplanes. The Russians whipped it at Changkufeng. "The Japanese leaders frankly admitted to me that they do not desire to light America as it would be calamitous."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 8
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171JAPANESE BOMBAST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 8
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