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JAPAN AND THE N.E.I.
The
TAKEN
together, the
Brenner Pass meeting con- stitute the most characteris-
Universal
War
to give offect to it, before con-
ble.
tainly provided one of the chief
Axis-Japan pact and the A distinguished English journalist sultation with them was, possi- examines the international scene This declaration almost cer-. tic effort of the Dictators since the entry of Japan into the motives for the Axis-Jinan, pact. tract us and throw dust into Axis combination, and is convinced pied and to divert the flow of
that the best hope of peace
since the war began to dis-
the eyes of their own
peoples. Hitler presents
himself as bestriding the the Far East is for Britain
narrow world like a Colossus
with which greater and the United States to permit
grander things to do than to
invade one little island in the divergence of interests.
Atlantic. Mussolini goes up
That is obviously intended both to the United States occu-
American supplies from Europe in to the Far East. In this way it
and America will be led to divide and
no
·
is supposed that Britain and disperse their forces between the Atlantic and tho Pacific.
We may take it for granted that British and Americans are well on their guard against this. The discussions al Havana
The Enemy's Intentions
the mountain to receive his far as they depend on sea trans- discovered when the Manchurian brought home to Americans the led share of the coming glory, port, we must do our utmost to question came up in 1932. Japan immense importance to them of
resistance, and Y prevent them from getting to had lost no minute of the time British and in their joyful amaze- their destination, and to rein- in exploiting the situation, and logically to the conclusion, which ment at the glittering new force our own army in the Mid- we were reduced to looking on is now being hammered home by American newspapers, that to with our hands tied. dle East,
kill the mischief at its source in thing, the German and Itali-
The hold-up of the Italian at- To some extent the situation Europe is an object overriding an peoples are expected to tack upon Egypt is one of the has been changed since 1986. all secondary considerations. forget all about the promises mysteries of the war. Never in We have made Singapore one of. the whole history of war had a the greatest naval strongholds in made
of to them
an soldier a finer opportunity than the world, and the United States easy and early triumph and was offered to General Graziani has new fortified positions in contentedly accept the pros- when the French surrender left the Pacific. But the result still
Bewilderment, distraction, di- the British army exposed to at- is that while Britain and Ameri- pect of another winter of tack by a greatly superior force, en have a combined economic vision and dispersal of forces with its flanks unprotected. Yet power which if steadily applied between a multitude of objec- he has let three months go by must, in the long run, be fatal tives and possible dangers this Mussolini's henchman, Gayda, without making any substantial to Japan, she has a certain is what our enemy seeks at this gave substance to the vision by advance, months in. which power of retaliation, especially moment. Against it wo must. painting it up as a plan for British power has been largely against British possessions and set cool heads, and make a care- world conquest. by Germany, reinforced by land and by sen. interests, which we must be pre- ful choice of essentials on which pared to face in any immediate we must concentrate and submit Italy, and Japan to the exclu- Egypt remains of primary im- future. Safety depends on our cheerfully to any temporary sion of Britain and America, to portance, but the subject which being willing to face them with sacrifices which this entails. say nothing of Russia and is likely to be of greatest con- composure and on our being de- cern to us in the immediate fu- termined not to let any apparent
The Prime Minister docs right. ture is the Far East. Mr.
to warn us that we must be divergence of interests separate prepared for reverses, misfor- This surely would be the last Churchill announced that the us from the United States. tunes, and mistakes perhaps
war.
Ching.
straw for British and Ameri- Burma Road, which is now the
The best hope of peace is, for even greater than those which cans. Could they fail to be dis. main route for munitions enter-
ing China, was to be re-opened. both of us, to convince Japan have befallen us. With so many tracted and unnerved by this
hazards over sò vast á field it would be folly to think other- wise.
con.
I was
By J. A. SPENDER
hears the indication "LP is received is appalling prospect of war on Mongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who ro- both hemispheres and all servo all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous
tinents, war everywhere and
But behind all these confused arrangement,
nowhere at the same time, war At the same time the United that having put our hands to this appearances we have, the assur- in which no one would know States has notified that she is plough we shall go on to the ance that the greater forces are what would happen next or making a loan of £9,000,000 to end.
on our side and that our endur- where some unexpected blow China.
So far as it concerns the ance will make it sure they will THERE are signs that Japan
would fall?
It is to be assumed that Lon- United States the situation, both prevail. is about to start a typical war If we strip them of tinsel and don and Washington are acting in the Atlantic and the Pacific, That assurance will be the of nerves through the medium of glamour the immediate object of in close co-operation in taking is governed by Mr. Cordell Hull's strong support of the people of alleged "Incidents" in
these flouristics is clearly to warn these steps, and that they have declaration made to the Pan- London and other great cities as the
the United States off the Euro- looked ahead to the probable or American Conference which met they suffer the daily and nightly Netherlands East Indies--n
pean ground. The one new thing possible consequences, if Japan at Havana last July.
ordeal' through which they are technique for diplomatic and, in the Axis-Japan pact is that it resents them.
Speaking of the American now passing. By their courage" military accomplishment which becomes operative if a neutral,
a spectator of the possessions of European Powers, and resolution they have rallied has almost become obsolete since which could only (at present) be Washington Conference in the whether Dutch, French, British, opinion to Great Britain all over
the United States, takes a hand
or Danish, he said:
the world but especially in it has been worked to death by in the war, in which case Japan autumn and winter of 1921-22
"We could not permit these re- America, which has responded Hitler, and no longer contains its is to engage her in the Far East. when the seeds of the trouble
gions to become a subject of barter to German threats by speeding principal value the element of
between Japan and the Western
in the settlement of European dif- up the supply of munitions and ferences or a battle-ground for the entering into closer relations originality.
There are many skeletons at Powers were sown. She was Nonetheless, yes-the Nazi fcast, but the chief of deeply offended by the loss of adjustment of such differences. terday's news of 80-called Inci- them is the prospect, which has the British alliance and by no
Elther-situation-could-only-be-re with us for mutual defence. It la gorded as a threat to the peace and this spontaneous growth of dents in the N.E.L. is disquieting come visibly nearer in the last means accepted the nine-Power safety of this hemisphere, as would opinion, bringing home to all the and provides pause for thought. few weeks, of a British-Ameri- pact then proposed as its equi- any indication that they might be free peoples that we and they
used to promote systems alien to Normally the "maltreatment" can combination pooling re- valent. In order to console her, States the United sources which must in the long we and which the Japanese accuse the run be superior to any that the pledged ourselves not to con- Dutch of being guilty could be Axis
muster. America, struct advanced fortified buses In the Paciflc until the treaty settled-providing the allega. therefore, must be kept busy.
expired. This made her prac- tions were proved-by ordinary
tically impregnable for the next diplomatic apologies; but
fourteen years. evidently the Japanese Foreign Office desires to make them a
peg on which to hang reprovals, demands and ultimatums. Thus it is already semi-officially stated that Mr. Matsuoka is to ask, not only for a formal apology, but Indemnity. Presumably, if this is not forthcoming, Japan will regard herself as entitled to "take any other steps she feels necessary to deal with the situa. tion."
can
Middle East
and Balkans
the
the Inter-American system. Any are engaged in a common cause, /: effort, therefore, to modify the which is the ground of our con- existing status of these
areas fidence in the future. It is some-- whether by cession, by transfer, or thing greater and more durable by any impairment whatsoever in the control theretofore exercised than any combination that would be of profound and immedi- could be pieced together by the ate concern to all the American most skilful diplomacy. Republics:
The South American Republics
If any strategical object could be called impossible it was that appeared to accept this declara- It is suggested that the ap- pearance of a German division of attacking her in those dis- tion and authorised the United in Rumania is a first result of and repairing stations. So we action that might be necessary
the Brenner deliberations and the beginning of a large scale, operation involving the whole of the Balkans and the Near East, This, it seems to me, is at least premature, and the special stress laid on it by German-inspired| neutral correspondents rather suggests that it is meant to de-l
Govern- ceive. Though their ment is a puppet under German These are old-time Japanese control, the Rumanian people tactics and high falutin diploma- ruthless dismemberment of their have certainly not forgotten the tic phraseology will not cloak country, anil the Germans may real intentions. Japan has made well think it necessary to send no effort to conceal her desires in a force of their own to make for expansion to the N.E.L. sure that the oil wells, which They would offer her a prize are their principal immediate much richer than Manchuria ortion in this war as in the last.
objective, are not put out of ac-
the northern provinces of China; therefore it would be unwise to dismiss as bluffing this sudden anti-N.E.I agitation.
Her course, however, la by no means clear, Sho cannot take the Netherlands Indies simply, for the asking, though doubtless she has inid her plans well. The spectre over her
shoulders is the United States, and the fact that the spectre has added a shadow to give itself added potency, through the recent British reorgatılsa.. tion of the Far Eastern Command, must bet as a brake, aven to the Japanese extremists.
As regards the Middle East, It is highly probable that Mus- solini has obtained promises of help from Hitler in his campaign] against. Egypt. Acroplanes, tanks, guns, and technical, ad- visors are the most probable forms of this assistance, and, so
almost certainly inspired from Tokyo, and the reported movements of The Japanese in southern Indo-China; but there are many factors which Japan is forced to take into consideration before she embarks upon a belll- perent enterprise in the south and there is still plenty of opportunity for her more sober potllcat and which is almost certain to prove, in military elements to prevent action the long run, a catastrophe to the
The situation presents dangerous poksibilities, especially when consider ed in conjunction with the warlike movements by „Thilland, which are *nation,
tant waters without naval bases States to take any immediato
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Yale Alumni Object To Lindbergh
The alumni of Yale University In the Philippines have sent a cable, followed by a letter, strongly objecting to Colonel Charles Lindbergh's speech before their alma mater in which he said the United States in- volvement in the European war would be a disaster both at home- and abroad.
The cable, signed by E. J. Tavanlar, secretary of the Philip pine alumul and addressed to {the Yale secretary, reads: "News: item on recent Lindbergh speech publicizes Yale in manner which may be interpreted as sponsoring his address. Local Yale alumni: object to implication."
uncles
The letter, addressed to the presi-- dent of the university, follows:,m
"A good deal of pubilcity has benn given in Manila to the speech of one Charles Lindbergh This week the auspices of the Yale University America First Committee. This has a good iden. His other spoBIOTY, the: German American Bund, the Einheitsfrost, Father Coughlin and Pelley of the Bliver Shirin, ara; in Dutch right now,, but, Yalo, Univer- alty, is still a grand name. E
"Would you kindly advise land berth that wo, too, think the link is a good one and are: Imitating 'amine. We have formed the Talo University to Hell with Lindbergh, Rochaty, Marsila Brauch No. P.CZA