The Battle for Asia

468 Pages·1941·44.645 MB·English

by  Edgar Snow

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/n the middle of the tiventieth century Japan will meet Europe
on the plains of Asia and wrest from her the mastery of the
world. C^ount O^,kuma (,1915).
You thieves who oppress and injure the poor, how great a bold-
ness you have! . . . Have you not come to pull the whiskers I
of a tiger?
Juan the Fifth, in Pearl Buck's
translation of the Shui Hu Chuan
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