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GEN. MATSUPS PAN-ASIANISM
MAR DECEMBER
conquests. There is a Man choukuo army, but it is not re- zarded as a serious military ad- lition to the Japanese military power. At best it is considered useful for internal police func- tions. The warnin
Tung chow, where Japanese trained hinese soldiers and police took the first opportunity to rise in evo t and slaughter all the Jap- anese on whom they could lay hands is still fresh in Japanese memory.
The interesting thing about Even in Japan's older colonies, General Matsu's ultimatum to: Formosa and Korea, there has Nanking, which met with the ex-been no effort to raise military pected answer, was the stress units among the native popula laid upon the historical fame of tions Japanese rule has brough Nanking, its position as the key- istakable material benefits stone of Oriental civilisation, and both these countries. But it the presence there of priceless has been harsh, bureaucratic, cultural relics of a great past. unimaginative. Never for a m From the headquarters of a ment has it tended to obliterate military leader who has shown the distinction between the Jap nothing but ruthlessness in the anese, as the governing class, pursuance of the campaign, such and the Koreans and Formosaurs, an ultimatum would appear to be who were being governed little more than another example the idea that Japan's man power of military cynicism: yet there is would be increased by victory something to suggest otherwise. over Ching seems quite fallacious. It is easier to believe that Gen-If Manchoukno can be taken as a eral Matsui is realist enough to precedent, Japan's available for- know that the occupation of ces for other adventures would Nanking without the losses to be reduced because of the neces his troops that storming attacks sity of leaving a large permanent must involve and without the de- army of occupation in whatever vastation of bombardment, would part of China they might at leave him in a more comfortable tempt to bring within the Japan- strategical position for the winese orbit
ter and in more comfortable quar
ters. On the other hand, his The Shifting Seasons
offer to leave Nanking unshatter-
ed fits in with his known Pan-1
Asiatic sympathies. General A recent pronouncement by the
Iwane Matsui is an ardent advo- secretary of the Royal Meteoro- cate of Pan-Asianism, and a-logical Society in Britain accord- though in its Japanese version ited scientific recognition to the is little more than a thinly dis- fact that the seasons are moving guised scheme for Japanese dom-with the times, and that each of ination of all Asia, it must at them is making its appearance a the same time seek the preserva- little later in the year. This ten- tion and fostering of high Asia- dency of Nature to break her tic culture. This possibly was dates is, to the layman, most un- în General Matsui's mind, al expected; for he imagined that, though it is surely the most after having two or three times naive of militarist fantasies to flung her bonnet over the wind- imagine that modern wars of mill, or at least her ice cap over conquest can proceed without the the haunts of men, she had real- steady and wilful destruction of ly settled down to a steady rou- all that stands for culture, not tine. Gilbert, it was thought, only in monuments, but also in had emmerated all her poss the human life and spirit which changes, when he wrote: carries it on.
The moon in her phases
found,
One of the professed Japanese war objectives is the eradi
of anti-Japanese feeling în
Yet no Communist
tang agitator, it is safe to
The time and the wind and
the
The
And you don't find Mondays together.
could have been so successful in creating anti Japanese feeling" as the Japanese Army and Navy Although there is no prospect have been. So with the Japanese our happening on a covey Army and the preservation of Mondays, it now
Oriental culture.
probable that we may find
It is doubtful whether the summery days together. bombardments and bayonet char-beginning of November, which ges of the troops under his com-j a phenomenon nearly as mand will win many converts to diarys
Com
General Matsu's Pan-Asia ideas It is perhaps the poets among the Chinese. Mr. W. H have most reason. Chamberlin, discussing this in that Nature has not kept the Christian Science Monitor" with their. Future agi recently, explains that he dis-they be well up in clin cussed the spread of Pan-Asian- tory, will regard. ism outside Japan with- General daffodils that take the beauty Matsu The General admitted March with that it had found little popular freaks, and Browning 8. aspira response in China, and that tion, few Pan-Asian groups
been formed in China able to meet openly
fears of Japanese-
in ti
had
Oh, to be in England - Now that April's there, off will become another of iolence A scurities for which he is AsianThe rage Englishma more popular ever, not take the
uch to heart he
Of
the last few think that there have
Japan's whole colonial
in the past when surm been twelve mon