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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22478, 13 January 1943, Page 4

A Japanese authority has written a book, How Japan Plans to Win. It was written in October, 1940. The author, Kinoaki Matsuo, is liaison officer between the Japanese Foreign Office and Admiralty; also publicity chief of the Black Dragon Society, a fanatical, fascist military group. The translator, Kilsoo K. Haan, is Washington representative of the SinoKorean People’s League, an antiJapanese secret society. Purely in self-defence, Matsuo insisted, Japan, while continuing peaceable diplomatic negotiations until after hostilities were begun, should seek "quick battle and immediate decision,” seize the Philippines. Guam, Wake, Midway, Canton and Enderby Islands, and Tutuila harbour in Samoa, while a surprise attack fleet, consisting of submarines and destroyers, made a night attack on the American fleet, off Pearl Harbour, "sinking twelve capital ships with torpedoes.” The plan which he outlines, giving distance, tonnages, cruising times, man-tons of troopcarriers, was substantially carried out.” “Leadership—and Indeed all achievements in life—depends not upon intelligence alone, nor upon character alone, but upon the due combination of both ” writes Lord Elton in the Daily Mail. "It is fairly easy to pick your brightest boys by a test of book learning at the age of 13. But your boy of 13 who is merely bright may be no more than a potential bookworm, without a spark of the mysterious quality which Snakes for real and lasting distinction. And it is far harder to choose the boy ,who is going to combine intelligence (with that indefinable quality of moral fibre without which he will never climb 'out of the rut himself or lift others of it. Many of our moral and )n--sllectual disorders in the last 20 years Icua be traced to a scholarship system

which concentrated solely on intelligence and too often bred mere timid ‘No-men,’ critics, not < Ci actors, who could see the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Somehow or other we have got to find the George Washingtons and the Winston Churchills of the future, and we shall not do it with the conventional paper examine ation.”