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For
years
,
the
Pacific
had
been
trying
to
get
basic
assistance
in
the
synthetics
field
from
the
Reich
.
However
,
the
big
German
chemical
cartels
,
I
.
G
.
Farben
in
particular
,
had
harbored
their
patents
;
had
,
in
fact
,
created
a
world
monopoly
in
plastics
,
especially
in
the
development
of
the
polyesters
.
By
this
means
,
Reich
trade
had
kept
an
edge
over
Pacific
trade
,
and
in
technology
the
Reich
was
at
least
ten
years
ahead
.
The
interplanetary
rockets
leaving
Festung
Europa
consisted
mainly
of
heat
-
resistant
plastics
,
very
light
in
weight
,
so
hard
that
they
survived
even
major
meteor
impact
.
The
Pacific
had
nothing
of
this
sort
;
natural
fibers
such
as
wood
were
still
used
,
and
of
course
the
ubiquitous
pot
metals
.
Mr
.
Tagomi
cringed
as
he
thought
about
it
;
he
had
seen
at
trade
fairs
some
of
the
advanced
German
work
,
including
an
all
-
synthetic
automobile
,
the
D
.
S
.
S
.
—
Der
Schnelle
Spuk
–
which
sold
,
in
PSA
currency
,
for
about
six
hundred
dollars
.
But
his
underlying
question
,
one
which
he
could
never
reveal
to
the
pinocs
flitting
about
Trade
Mission
offices
,
had
to
do
with
an
aspect
of
Mr
.
Baynes
suggested
by
the
original
coded
cable
from
Tokyo
.
First
of
all
,
coded
material
was
infrequent
,
and
dealt
usually
with
matters
of
security
,
not
with
trade
deals
.
And
the
cipher
was
the
metaphor
type
,
utilizing
poetic
allusion
,
which
had
been
adopted
to
baffle
the
Reich
monitors
—
who
could
crack
any
literal
code
,
no
matter
how
elaborate
.
So
clearly
it
was
the
Reich
whom
the
Tokyo
authorities
had
in
mind
,
not
quasi
-
disloyal
cliques
in
the
Home
Islands
.
The
key
phrase
,
"
Skim
milk
in
his
diet
,
"
referred
to
Pinafore
,
to
the
eerie
song
that
expounded
the
doctrine
,
"
…
Things
are
seldom
what
they
seem
—
Skim
milk
masquerades
as
cream
.
"
And
the
I
Ching
,
when
Mr
.
Tagomi
had
consulted
it
,
had
fortified
his
insight
.
Its
commentary
:
Here
a
strong
man
is
presupposed
.
It
is
true
he
does
not
fit
in
with
his
environment
,
inasmuch
as
he
is
too
brusque
and
pays
too
little
attention
to
form
.
But
as
he
is
upright
in
character
,
he
meets
with
response
…
The
insight
was
,
simply
,
that
Mr
.
Baynes
was
not
what
he
seemed
;
that
his
actual
purpose
in
coming
to
San
Francisco
was
not
to
sign
a
deal
for
injection
molds
.
That
,
in
fact
,
Mr
.
Baynes
was
a
spy
.
But
for
the
life
of
him
,
Mr
.
Tagomi
could
not
figure
out
what
sort
of
spy
,
for
whom
or
for
what
.
At
one
-
forty
that
afternoon
,
Robert
Childan
with
enormous
reluctance
locked
the
front
door
of
American
Artistic
Handcrafts
Inc
.
He
lugged
his
heavy
cases
to
the
curb
,
hailed
a
pedecab
,
and
told
the
chink
to
take
him
to
the
Nippon
Times
Building
.
The
chink
,
gaunt
-
faced
,
hunched
over
and
perspiring
,
gasped
a
place
-
conscious
acknowledgment
and
began
loading
Mr
.
Childan
’
s
bags
aboard
.
Then
,
having
assisted
Mr
.
Childan
himself
into
the
carpet
-
lined
seat
,
the
chink
clicked
on
the
meter
,
mounted
his
own
seat
and
pedaled
off
along
Montgomery
Street
,
among
the
cars
and
buses
.
The
entire
day
had
been
spent
finding
the
item
for
Mr
.
Tagomi
,
and
Childan
’
s
bitterness
and
anxiety
almost
overwhelmed
him
as
he
watched
the
buildings
pass
.
And
yet
—
triumph
.
The
separate
skill
,
apart
from
the
rest
of
him
:
he
had
found
the
right
thing
,
and
Mr
.
Tagomi
would
be
mollified
and
his
client
,
whoever
he
was
,
would
be
overjoyed
.
I
always
give
satisfaction
,
Childan
thought
.
To
my
customers
.
