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JAPAN AND WAR STRAIN. “Perhaps Japan can afford to be insolvent,” says The Scotsman. “In a book on Japan, published in 1923, Dr Joseph H. Longford, a former British consul at Nagasaki, expressed the following opinion: ‘Japan, secure in her own islands, amid the most stormswept seas in the world, guarded by army and fleet that are both as efficient as they are strong, can bid defiance to any combination of Western Powers that can ever be united against her, and follow the dictates of her ambition unharassed by any thought of what other Powers might do or say. She might in a war with a great sea power temporarily lose her foreign trade, but, though she would suffer, she could live without it. She can furnish, temporarily at least, all the absolute necessities of her life; and what Power is there on earth that could transport to the Far East an army sufficient to expel her from any continental colonies?’ This view has not been coloured by recent events in China, or even by Japan’s success in Manchuria, and it should at least temper’ the easy assumption that Japan’s economic machine will not stand the strain of war.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4054, 30 May 1938, Page 8
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