CHINA MAI Japan's Future Course
AN AGRARIAN ROLE
While German propaganda'has been insistently lauding the scheme for a "new order in Europe," as laid down by German financiers and economists, little attention has hitherto been paid to the Colonies, Hitler at one time even went so far as to an-
nounce that the requisition of territory in Africa or elsewhere was not of vital importance. This silence has now been broken by the official organ of Hitler's S.S. which recently outlined Germany's colonial aims. When speaking of the "new order" in Europe phrases are usually designed to cloak the subject with glamorous but vague outlines, but in so far as German colonial policy is planned, no vagueness is considered necessary or worthwhile. The writer of the article in question states very clearly that "we need colonies to assure a living for the millions of German workers
the work done in the Colonies must aim at attaining the greatest advantage for the Fatherland with the least possible expenditure of man- power
German administra- tors will act as organisers of agriculture, industry and merce, serving as the Fatherland's delegates and symbolising the Reich sovereignty. It must be emphasised," added the writer, "that the purpose of the colonies will be to supply the Reich with cheap raw materials."
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During three years and two periencing the horrors of the gen- | Just another American, only a few | The German Fifth Column, months of continuous residence | darmerie inquisition chambers cn dollars removed from the beach, I which had been filing across Si- in Japan, the writer of this some suspicion of harbouring "danger- must acknowledge the genuine
boria all winter like an army př what confused and not altogether ous thought") Japan's much-mall-character of their sincerity. objective chronicle was privileged gned and greatly disillusioned What I did not realise for the ants (I have counted as many as to witness the completion and students found themselves in the latter part of a year was the cold 250 trunks at one time on the plat-
was intensely most of the spadework of a re-gentle, hands of Colonel Kingoro fact that the war latively bloodless but nonetheless | Hashimoto (retired?) and his unpopular with the great mass of form of Yokohama Station, all terroristic revoluwon, from nomin- ultra-nationalistic Japan Young the people, who did not ask for it bearing Berlin and Hamburg tags). al Democracy to absolute Tetali- Men's Party. The bat-cared bom- and certainly did not want it: who and went into high gear simul tarianism:
ber of the Panay rescued them wanted nothing more, in fact, then taneously. from the tender mercies of the their daily rice. walrus-mustached General Sadão Arald, also retired and actually shelved for the nonce because of his embarrassing hatred of the Soviets,
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Christianity ‘Reformed'
In line with Japan's nationalistic revolution, as rounded out by the New Structure Tower of Babel (thus designated because no two of its many architects can explain it with even incoherent similarity) Christianity has given up its in- strategic withdrawal. Despite the secure foothold and performed a tight-lipped silence of those who By A Reformed
I took it on.
Certain army elements again- The war was not sold to the found it necessary to prod a Wär people: they merely approval. The fast talking army Minister, and General Shunroku, boys, after requiring a slight de- Hata, stalked out of --Cabinot, posit, promised rich dividends which collapsed in his wake, within a few months and the peo- ple fancied they would be picking up gold in the streets with the next frost.
Then came the Teutonic-in- spired "spy scare," featuring the arrest of a number of prominent Since it was rather difficult for Britons, and a general reign of the Japanese to gnash their teeth terror designed to squelch the and work themselves into a frenzy last dying opposition to the new of wrath over the Chinese, who were in danger of succumbing to crew and its programme. With the the treacherous wiles of Moscow New Structure smoke-screen and really needed nothing but en- prosperity, it behooved the army and the isolationist clamour and lightenment and guidance toward making things murky in Japan to dig up a whipping boy, so as to political preoccupation sweeping instil a bit of needed war ́spirit. Because Hitler was glowering at America, the irresponsible leaders him and conditions in his own in Tokyo developed the twin de- bailiwick seemed somewhat chao-lusion that the United States could tic, Josef Stalin appeared to be the
The military uprising of 1936, referred to but rarely in Tokyo and then only as the "February 26 Incident," marked the incep- tion of this revolution. It scarcely could be recognised as such, how ever, even by the time I had dis- embarked from a freighter in Yokohama and deposited myself on the hospitable shores of Dai Nippon as an uninvited guest-at precisely the same time other un- invited guests were making a shambles of Chapel. mination of this great do mestic upheaval came with the re-emergence of Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the dedication of his "New Structure" (for historical and idiotic parallel refer to Tower of Babel construction project) and his faltering signature of the tri- partite military alliance with Ger- many and Italy. This instrument, incidentally, was obstructed by a for 48 hours heartsick. Emperor after its announcement was sche-
likeliest candidate, and his botton be bluffed into keeping to its own duled, and the grim signing care-
side of the Pacific and that the mony nearly left Prince Konoye
home folks were hankering for with nervous prostration. Of great..
When Stalin's refusal to fill the international adventure. Thus the est significance was the fact that
was confirmed survived "investigations," bill
by the time was thought ripe for spring.. the three-way pact converted | have
by the Kwantung Army in the dialur- Japan, the pioneer puppet-mak- the methods employed er, into a pathetic Charley Mc- gendarmes can be imagined in bance that occurred up Nomonhaming the three-way alliance. Carthy operated by remote con- terrifying detail when the case of way, before the climax was cap- the Rev. Toyohiko Kagawa, Ja-ped in Moscow, public opinion trol from Berlin.
pan's No. 1 living martyr, is call-builders started casting about for and better scapegoat. ed to mind. Mr. Kagawa, who for a bigger sok riches for Christianity and They found John Bull, the all but lived among filthy and diseased forgotten despoiler of East Asia, derelicts in the rudest hovel in behaving himself "most abomin- Kobe's most squalid slum-his ably" in Tientsin and sufficiently faith never faltering emerged preoccupied in Europe to suit the from the grim grey building Japanese purpose. So the hounds in Marunouchi after a few weeks were off Russia and set yapping of the works and promptly became after Britain. a convert. Seeing the light in a sudden flash of enlightenment, he
February 26, 1936, and October 27, 1940, are likely to be set down in the records as the outstanding dates in the retrogressive process which inevitably must lead to the collapse of the 2,600-year-old Em- pire.
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"THE CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW!!
We have quoted enough to show Germany's purpose in the Colonies she eventually hopes to possess. The same system would apply to Europe under the "new
The most dispassionate observer order." In fact, the more out- spoken German and Italian writ-Could not without wincing have witnessed the relentless course of
gained his release and took him- ers, especially the latter, who events between these two dates-self off to Kyushu to preach the usually fail to smother their real the ruination of a proudly pro- New Structure gospel. purpose in words, betray the fact gressive nation and the progres- that European countries are to be sive degeneration of perhaps reduced to the status of German 59,500,000. fundamentally honest colonies, colonies conveniently and peace-loving people. close at hand to supply Germany with the raw materjals she needs "without interference from third powers."
March of Events
was bared to the lash.
“Spontaneous' Displays
Disillusionment Arrives
Any illusions about American timidity were swept away by the evacuation of American citizens from Japan and China and the re- election of President Roosevelt, both of which events were wit nessed with long faces.
As to the reaction of the Japan- ese people to the latest and great- Similarly, thousands of Japan- Acrimonious editorials, almost est of Tokyo's diplomatic blun- ese cursed with the ability to identical in phraseology, were ders, it can be said that the Axis think for themselves, who a few vomited out by Tokyo's well- extension ranks' next in unpopu mcnths back voiced their Demo-trained press and bushels of larity only to the Sino-Japanese appearance war. One ordinarily is not im- cratic views rather frankly and posters made their were easily accessible to foreign- overnight on telephone poles and pressed by negative emotional ex- ers, have now drawn within them- railway abutments, bidding Bri- hibitions, but the wave of chilling selves and are prudently silent. tain remove itself from "our new silence which greeted the joint
have. Their convictions German economists have fre-
been East Asia?" Purely spontanous" announcement carried the impact. quently stressed the need for an Review briefly from that evil sharpened, if anything, by what is demonstrations occurred outside of a slap in the face. The "Hochi felt assured and unlimited flow of day carly in July, 1937, when going on about them. Eut they the gates of the British Embassy, Shimbun," which was one of the agricultural products into Ger- Lieutenant-General Hajime Sugi- have seen their ranks depleted, with demonstrators arriving in first Nazi prizes in Japan,
and battalions constrained to rebuke the people many and those countries now yama, then War Minister, respond-due to scraps of non-conformist municipal trucks
from conversation overheard in public of aproned and trousered mem- for their failure to whoop it up under the domination of Hitler ing to prods in the rear have been clearly fold that in-superiors, told Japan's plastic iron places or to being seen too fre-bers of women's associations on over the new pact, remarking that of appreciation of dustrial competition could not be man that if he (Konoye) would quently in the company of for hand, by spontaneous impulse of Herr Hitler could not but feel hurt unbounded bene- not order seven divisions of the eigners of the wrong nationality, course, to dispense ice-water to at their lack tolerated. "Naturally Germany
Imperial Army to North China to This irregularity often as not. has the listless flagwavers who were Germany's will not allow her fibre Industries transform the existing squabble been pointed out to the authori-shouting meekly for British blood volence. to dwindle after the war," stated into a full-dress war, then by all. ties by foreigners of the right no-
America had remained a true Although the Germans are off- one writer on South East Euro- that was holy he (Sugiyama)tionality.
Iriend of Japan all the while, cially glorified, the Japanese realise pean economics, "so she will would preempt the authority and
though somewhat standoffish, even they have maneuvred their Gov- maintain arrangements with the issue the order, we see:
after the renunciation of the Ja ernment into á precarious post- countries in South Eastern Europe
panese-American treaty of com- tion, and they hate them intensely 1. A rusty, gear-stripped mili- for at least a part of their sur- plus agrarian products to be taken tary machine with wheels out of
merce and navigation. It had been for it, frequently deplored that American
The situation in Japan has 1937, up by the Reich as, this traffic aligunent and a nearly empty gas-go back somewhere near the be-public opinion was so ill-inform- |
ed as not to be able to grasp and changed completely from cannot be upset by other Powers," tank backing out of China's mire on three cylinders, that it may
appreciate the real meaning of the when foreigners were trusted and This is, as a matter of fact, what line up at the starting post in the
When I arrived in Japan, and Sacred Campaign" in Ching and respected, and now suspicion and is already being carried out in southern circuit in a desperate at- I must confess I landed with a cooperate with it wholeheartedly, open hostility are displayed against Rumania to whom Germany has tempt to "place" in the next race, closed mind cluttered up with a but the official and press criticism all
With a serious coal and power and farming implements in return tion because of inadequate repairs, about the Orient in general and plane. British stock even rose o
a weary driver and dubious back- Japan in particular, I was imme-notch or so after the Berlin-Mos-shortage admitted, and a poorly for agricultural produce.
diately impressed not by the sinise cow deal, and the dogs were called stocked larder all too evident, Ja- 2. Grim prospects of national rather by the respect and admira the lay of the land.
ter. qualities of the people but off until Tokyo, could resurvey pan faces a cruel winter. The sup- ply of charcoal, the universal fuel for cooking and heating is being self-destruction by the following tion they displayed towards all means of sudden or slow death: foreigners, particularly Americans, Britain's rascality was noted rationed drastically: Gas and elec- borne out when we are fold that (A) the battering of an addled and Anglo-Saxon culture. Once again in consequence of the Asama tricity cannot be used for auxiliary
pate to a bloody pulp against the assured of my non-Communist Maru affair, but America did not warmth. these same countries must return Singapore fortress. (B) slow stur-leanings, determined by none too become an accomplice and a full- to their "traditional agricultural vation, economically and physi- subtle probing, I was accepted, nedged arch-enemy of all East Although all commodities are role" and not attempt to compete cally, if the world's oldest war cherished and revered along with Asia until after France had fallen available in Japan's "conquered" in markets where German goods keeps to its pattern. (C) suffoca- baseball, permanent waves, Pre- and Britain appeared to be in the territories, the "conquerors" are are to be found. France has also tion from sheer apathy. (D) stran-sident Roosevelt (in excellent Nazi bag as well,
obliged to get along on 10 small, boxes of matches and a half- gulation by bureaucratic red tape. standing at the time) Ford V-8's,
Wrigley's chewing gum (both With this turn of events, the pound of sugar a month per house- 3. The virtual disappearance of could be bought); Deanna Durbin, prime idea was to polson the peo-hold, to eat an unpalatable mix- such modified civil liberties as Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and ple so thoroughly against the two ture of unpolished Formosan and ever existed, thanks to an in- Oliver Hardy. emcient but serviceable Gestapo,.
To explain the phenomena of anti-foreignism and manufactured oscares, both part and parcel of official policy, it is necessary to
ginning.
agreed to give building materials but facing probable disqualifica= | lot of preconceived erroneous ideas always was kept on a constructive hers, Germans included,.
Germany has declared that she has no intention of laying down the law
in individual countries,
but this kindly assurance is not
been informed of this, hence the Vichy dictum that agriculture will loom largely in the new economic
ers.
has
now
ore
and wheat, life of the people.
remaining powerful Democracies | Indo-Chinese rice The stress laid on the import-manufactured according to Berlin
as to win their acquiescence in an when they can get it. In the fre- Axis partnership, since lush pluma quent absence of rice they ent ance of agriculture in the new or specifications and aided and abet-
suddenly had appeared in the bread, when they can get that. der in Europe serves a two-fold ted by a gigantic Nazi Fifth Co-
Restaurants serve rice only at south.
certain specified hours of the day, purpose. It relieves the Reich lumn. This bungling foreg once and for all from the pressing succeeded in stamping out the last Unharmed, Untouched Shiratori-Tatakawa - Suetsugu and neighbourhood shops are sold fear of luck. It also ensures a vestige of liberalism in politics,
Hashimoto and Company, Gorot-out more often than not. Wheat- better prospect for continued economics and education. The Im-
Had I been a visiting dignitary, sukis Ltd.,.had crawled from un-abhorring Tokyoites
their flat rock, drafted forming in breadlines, for the first domination, Agriculturists are for perial Diet, which once rang with a person with a definite mission to der the most part isolated from active the righteous convictions of free perform or anyone but a news Frince Konoye as their front man time in history. participation in the political field, tremble and tumble, is to-day a arrived on a freighter and rode in term as Premier would be in the speaking men, causing cabinets to paperman on gabbatical leave who (Implying strongly that a second
What is perhaps the ultimate ́in. while the distances at which they splendiferous but hollow shell, not on n sampan under the cover of best interests of his health) and irony is the fact that no Japanese live precludes any effective or unlike the Kroll Opera House. a trial black-out, I should have started undermining the Yonat can go to China unless under ganisation against German' suzer-
been inclined to view the courtesies Cabinet which they thoughtfully arms, on an official misalon or on ainty, at the same time reducing With all liberal professor and considerations which were bad allowed to remain in offico urgent business and for the lat- the country to the humble state weeded out of the great univer- honped upon me with a slightly until the Dist unpleasantness was ter reason a hard-to-get police
parmit is required, of a dependency.
sities or broken (not a low ex-jaundiced cyc. But since I was disposed of.
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