THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941.
CHINA MAIL
WINDSOR HOUSE
THE COURSE IS FORWARD
Axis propagandists assert that the people of the United
Statey
are disunited and not behind the President in his foreign policy. They argue
that the Unit- ed States can neither fight a war on its own behalf nor contribute] effectively to the resistance of the nations which are fighting now against aggression and the rule of force.
In arriving at these conclusions the Axis propagandists also take much too short a view. It is un- deniably true that there hus been some let-down in the an- xiety of both Congress and the
American people during recent weeks This is the direct conse-] quence of the fact that the war! suddenly turned east at the end of June, since which time the German armies have been fully occupied in Russia. But this is merely 11 temporary shift ut front, and the Axis ought to have no illusions about American po- lay in the future, after what has been demonstrated. This let- down is only a small dip in a line that has been moving for- ward and that will
move forward.
continue to
“WHAT! TRYING TO ENCIRCLE · VERSELF?"
THE
GREAT WALL
(It is reported from Shanghai that the Japancse are constructing an. 18-feet-high wall from Tientsin for a hundred miles, along the coast, running parallel with the railway, as a protection against guerillas.)
Nazi Agents Busy In East
The change in American senti- NAZI agents employing familiar, any large number of Germans to now in Japan, but many in Shang- ment as the war progressed hus
pressure techniques are hard arrive in China from the home-hal. been tremendous. Two years at work in Japan, and less visibly land, it is not felt that the Influx
in China, attempting to impel the of Germans can take on the char “Thought Offenders” ago, it was thought that America Far East down a path marked out acter of a political "infiltration." |
that the Meanwhile institution of a sys- was committed irrevocably to aby Berlin as essential to the im-It is net in evidence cold and anemic neutrality.
position of its pattern of conquest | Germans are exerting apy appre- tem of virtual concentration camps The
on the in this vital segment of the world. į ciable influence
Wang in Japan, one of the few hallmarks commitment
Shel was unreal.
Japan, as the main instrument-Ching-wel puppet regime at Nan- of totalitarianism heretofore miss- has abandoned that neutrality. tality chosen by Hitler to further King, or on the Japanese in China, his Far Eastern ambitions, teems although Berlin's recent recogni- the arms She has repealed
with Nazi agents. bargo which made it impossible for friends abroad to obtain the She is weapons of self-defence.
em-
Nobusuke Kishi, former Japan- ese Vice-Minister of Commerce from and Industry, is reported Tokyo to have found an influx of} German travellers in Japanese-
By A Staff
now supplying those weapons at her cost, gladly and gratefully. She has taken steps which would Manchukuo. He has just returned from a tour there, Writing in the to the
Tokyo newspaper "Nichi Nichi," Mr. Kishi reported:
occupied portions of China and in Correspondent Of
The "Christian
huve
seemed incredible
peacetime
history;
Science Monitor"
tion of Mr. Wang resulted in flareup in comradely feeling.
a
ing in that country, is under way: Prisoners will mostly be "thought offenders," a term used to describe. liberals, Communists. and" "any other persons ideologically out-of- step with the national policies of, the moment.
Ordinarily in the past "danger- ous thinkers" have been picked up by police on suspicion and sub→ Jected to extensive grilling. Those believed to constitute a dangerous element have been field for years, without trial frequently, and the gaols of Japan to-day are jammed) with liberal college professors, } political workers. students and