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protests against Japanese bombings of our undefended cities as
sanctimonious hypocrisy? Do you wonder that some Chinese
look upon America's professed neutrality as but a label
to cover the facts from the nation's conscience?
America's moral responsibility is tremendous and
inescapable. In the bodies of our fallen dead lie pieces of scrap iron driven into them with the help of American gun cotton or American chemicals. In the wreckage
of our ruined cities the Japanese parade the military might
built up by selling their cargoes of silk of which the
American people consume 85% of all Japan's production. Japan's industrial machines of war are driven by American
parts, preparing more death for our youth. At this moment
America is actually reported to be supplying Japan with
54.4% of her basic materials of war. Do your fathers, who
thus trade in the blood of China, really believe that this is
isolationism or neutrality?
And youth of Great Britain! Your nation's guilt
is equally serious. British possessions sell to Japan
34% of all the rubber she needs, and 41% of all the cotton
she buys.
Great Britain controls 30% and America 32% of all
those raw materials indispensable to Japanese aggression.
Great Britain and America each absorb about a quarter of
Japan's total exports. Together their possessions make up 51% of the foreign market of Japan, without which her
economy would face prompt collapse.
Without Anglo-American trade, without your raw products,
without your technique and maintenance of Japanese industries,
the Japanese juggernaut could not move in China more than a