* A dozen Warsaw shopkeepers were arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Bereza for raising prices or refusing to sell the required amount of foodstuffs.
** Japanese soldiers, reflecting the Tokyo government’s displeasure over Germany’s signing of a nonaggression pact with Russia, were reported to have slapped the faces of several Germans at the barriers to the foreign concessions.
Britons had been the chief victims of these incidents previously.
Two weeks ago there was a story about an American woman being slapped. It is time for retaliation. I suggest we send Larry, Moe and Curly to China.
*** But there is still a long, long way to go before the First Army or any army under the American flag becomes in truth a combat force.
Both horsed and mechanized cavalry are useful to any army, essential in certain situations.
A battalion of the 165th Infantry and a squadron of the 101st Cavalry, about 300 men in all, [arrived] at Grand Central, 2:30 A. M. daylight time yesterday.
Aren’t these amazing times? In just a few years the 101st will be using airplanes for some of their trips. Of course, they will have to carry their own luggage.
Is is conceivable that the Poles really didn't expect an immediate war, or were they just keeping their mouths shut publicly?
The Japanese tactic of slapping foreigners while it humiliated the foreigners probably was designed to increase the contempt for foreigners among the Japanese military. The reaction by a Japanese in the equivalent situation can only be imagined.
The US military was in great shape I see, if it was possible for Hitler to attack us first, he would have won the war.