The Japanese reigned over the Netherlands East-Indies. Oil flowed towards Japan, and millions of Java schoolboys had to take Japanese language study and Nippon haircuts.

“It is difficult,” said the radio voice of Tokyo recently, “to tell you our objective in the south in simple words. I don’t know it myself.” Tokyo’s difficulty was suggested by news leaking out of Japan’s “Co-Prosperity Sphere”:

> The 550,000-acre Philippine sugar-cane industry, deprived of its U.S. market and…