Japan Is, You Often Feel,

Japan Suffered Terribly From The Atomic Bomb But Never Adopted A Pose Of Moral Superiority, Implying: 'we Would Never Have Done It!' The Japanese Know Perfectly Well They Would Have Used It Had They Had It. They Accept The Idea That War Is War; They Give No Quarter And Accept None. Total War, They Recognize, Knows No Queensberry Rules. If You Develop A Devastating New Weapon During A Total War, You Use It; You Do Not Put It Into The War Museum.

To Be Extravagant You Need Money. True. But You Do Not Need Your Own Money.

Nobody Uses His Car In New York, Because So Many People Use It That Traffic Is Congested And Unbearably Slow.

A Great Deal Of The Pupils Time Was Spent Going Through, Once Again, The History Of The Communist (bolshevik) Party Of The Soviet Union. He Had Learnt It At Elementary School; At Secondary School; At His Sports Club; At The Komsomol; At The University; At A Folk Dancing Course; At The Chess-club.

The English Are Always Ready To Admire Anything So Long As They Can Queue Up.