JAPAN S FIRST ASSET
VALUE OF HER SITUATION BOUND TO WIN AT FIRST "Japan's first asset is geography, and this is also a liability. For gco-. graphy was China's asset in the war against Japan, lu the glib overeonfidenee which so widely prevailed last year it ay as. overlooked that Japan was tree to choose the scene of action and that the scene of action she AYould inevitably choose was one in AYhich she AYas unmatchably superior in the first instance. lhe theatre of Far Eastern war was the Far East. The stakes of a Far Eastern war lie in the Far East. Japan is in the Far East, She can get there first with the most men, the most guns, the most ships, the most planes. "In the beginning, therefore, Japan aa as bound to win the stakes. That is geography, that is mathematics, that is any other aspect of first principles."—N. Peffer in the New York Times. i
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 81, 22 July 1942, Page 5
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160JAPAN S FIRST ASSET Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 81, 22 July 1942, Page 5
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