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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
STORM CLOUDS
Storm clouds over the Pacific are no very rare henomena and it does ot follow, therefore, that he crisis that threatens ver Japan's further en- roachments in Indo- hina will develop into The crisis that ends all rises. For the moment, apan will be more than ontent with a strate- ic gain without fight- ng for it, and if left 1 undisturbed pusses- on, will do no more im. hediately than consolid- te and await a propitious, homent (if ever it comes) br proceeding to the
ext stage of her undis- uised expansionist am- itions. From a British oint of view, it is more exatious that Vichy hould cover cowardly! apitulation by represent- ng Japanese aggression S defence against а ritish menace, than that¦ apan should be putting n the screws and follow- ng a course that came as surprise either to ondon or Washington or ingapore. Naturally, it ould be highly injudi- ous for Tokyo to proceed | n the assumption that! he can get away with it,
NECESSITY
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THE "PUSH-OVER "
America In Her Own Right
Hiller's policy has been bril- Japanese treaty: this h a verbal protest basis. liantly
is a very cause, now that the decision has conceived and un the important part of his purpose in been taken to resist our own iso- ritain and the United whole shrewdly executed. It has driving the Vichy government
been to isolate the United States into collaboration.
lation and encirclement, it be- If he could tates have spent a long by exploiting its love of peace persuade us or prevent us from comes our obvious policy to move me alternately applying and to encircie it by acts of which defeating him in the Battle of the toward the isolation and encircle-
the consequences might bt, and cold
not be Atlantic, there is to their visible to most of the people until he would
no doubt that ment of Nazi Germany. This is offer us a negotiated
our greatest role in the conflict. olicy in the Far East toit was too late to avoid them.
peace.
In alliance with Japan, If the policy succeeded. ake it just tepid enough united States isolated
It is of no value uniess we pro- the with France his vassal, with South
But and en- America compelled to follow him, duce and deliver the goods. suit them, but the move circled, would be asked, as the we should be offered a settlement. if we do produce and deliver the Japanese Foreign Office has made The principal condition of that goods, our political power can and Japan into Southern known, to disarm in the naine of settlement has been officially dis. Will be used to break up Hitler's do-China drives events peace and to conform to a total-closed in Tokyo, and it is perfect-alliance and bring into being the ut of the realm of ab-
ract diplomacy into This policy very nearly
ceeded. With the seizure of Nor- of practical con-
way and the defeat of Frange, the equences and practical Nazi sea and air power was plac- ction. A bare-faced piece ed in a position to strike danger- ously at the communications be- banditry, designed to tween North America and Great rovide Japan with Britain, between Great Britain and South America, between
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itarian world order.
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By Walter Lippmann
This is the Battle of the At-a settlement
America.
won
based upon
were proposed to us.
the
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alliance which will destroy him.
we are
China,
Thus we are now in a position to turn to the Japanese with the [object of rendering impossible a war in the Pacific-a war which would be a ruinous and foolish war. This war cannot be averted by weakness, fear, or indecision. It can be averted by resoluteļ action and a candid recognition of our own and of Japan's vital in- bringboard for further North America and South Ameri- ly obvious. We should be offered terests. Having made our milit-
the ary dispositions so that ggression, is a matter ca.
lantic, which has for its immed-suspension of our armament pro- able to check a Japanese inter- oncerning which none late object the blockade of Brit-gramme and the reduction of our vention in the world war, having
terested in Pacificain, and as its consequence, if naval power.
If we refused, we reached the necessary strategical ecurity can be indiffer- tion of North America not only we accepted, we could no longer lia, the Netherlands and
Hitler won it, the physical isola-should have to fight the world; if agreements with Britain, Austra- of all ht. Reports from the from Europe but from South refuse any other conditions that having taken Arm control
of our many means of economic nited States indicate
thej Hitler would have
warfare, we should open up hat a greater strain has Battle of the Atlantic if he could Owing to confusion of counsel prospect of serious negotiation in
make it impossible for the Brit- and to other causes, this policy
the Far East based upon an hon~ een placed upon uncom-ish Isles to continue to be the of isolating and encircling North ourable peace In the Chinese ortable
commercial treaty American-Jap-fortified base of the British Navy. America has come
near to suc- war, a For South America is connected cess. It has come so near to suc-with us and with the Netherlands, hese relations, and that strategically, as it has been his- cess that Col. Lindbergh rests his and a political settlement, which merican disapproval will torically, as in fact it is economi- whole case, apart from his emo- would include Russia, based upon! nd expression in action, and northern Africa, and it can- Hitler is victorious and that the in China--Japanese, British
Europe tional appeal, on the assertion that the liquidation of all imperialism]. rom Britain, too, the not be defended from bases in United States should now accept American,
North America alone. A
and Nazi the fact that it is isolated arning has
that come
victory in the Battle of the Atlan- encircled and should behave ac- he further encroach, tic would contitute for a long time cordingly.
There is ground for the hope ent does not find Britain to come a decisive defeat of the ithout means of effec-phere.
hemis- proved to be correct; and Col. and belief, that some constructive Lindbergh's predictions would policy in the Pacific is not exclud- ed. All the world, excepting only In order that the defeat should have been fulfilled but for ve reprisal. If, as seems
to gain be irreparable, Hitler's policy has fact that both misjudged the pow than it has to lose by a well-con-
Hitler, has much more ertain, both countries aimed not only at the isolation of er of Britain and both misunder- ducted, diplomatic move to avert egin to put teeth into North America but at its encircle- stood the capacity of the Ameri-
a war in the Pacific. heir policy in the Farment. This is the purpose of his can people to see that the main-
tenance of British-American sea In making the effort we shall ast, bringing relations China move is in accord power in the Atlantic is a vital be acting at last as a great power neither ith Japan to a more ance with the Axis princi- interest of the United States. The and in our own right-
miscalculation about Britain caus- timidly shrinking from our res-
cally, with southwestern
defence of the Western
Hitler's calculation would have
the
new
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and
erilous stage, it is too pal of applying pressure ed Lindbergh to make, a speech ponsibilities nor basing our action on to hoist the No. 10 to soft points. In reply, it last summer taking it for granted simply, and solely upon the role of as beyond argument: that Ger- an auxiliary of Britain. As D gnal. Japan, too, knows must be brought home many had already won the war great power and acting in our ow to blow hot and cold, convincingly to Japan United States was marked by the consultation with the British com- The misunderstanding of the own right, though of course. In nd nothing has occurred that there are no more passage of the lease-lend bill the monwealth of nations, we can give her confidence easy pickings and as declarations of the President, and have much to say to France, and the placing of his country on a perhaps also to Spain and Por- hat this is the moment she insists on having it war footing.
tugal, that Britain alone.cannot sny, that the Latin countries need apply the match to the that way, the gloves are
We have come to a turning to hear and that they may in fact owder keg. The Indo-off.
boint in the great conflict bebe glad to hear