Japan is on warpath. The exiled Government of The Netherlands learned from Batavia that Japan had served new demands on the East Indies. The Dutch refused.

Japan’s grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the…