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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1941.

CHINA MAIL

DEWINDSOR HOUSE

STORM CLOUDS

NECESSITY

!

Storm clouds over the Pacific are no very rare phenomena and it does not follow, therefore, that the crisis that threatens over Japan's further en- croachments in Indo- China will develop into| the crisis that ends all crises. For the moment, Japan will be more than content with a strate- gic gain without fight- ing for it, and if left! 11} undisturbed posses- sion, will do no more im- mediately than consolid- ate and await a propitious moment (if ever it comes} for proceeding to the next stage of her undis- guised expansionist am- bitions, From a British! point of view, it is more vexatious that Vichy! should cover cowardly capitulation by represent-. ing Japanese aggression. as defence against a British menace, than that' Japan should be putting on the screws and follow- ing a course that came as 110 surprise either to London or Washington or Singapore. Naturally, it would be highly injudi- cious for Tokyo to proceed on the assumption that she can get away with it on a verbal protest basis. Britain and the United whole shrewdly executed. It has driving the Vichy government lation and encirclement, it be-

THE PUSH-OVER

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America In. Her

Own

Right

Hier's polley has been bril. Japanese treaty: this liantly conceived and

comes our obvious policy to move

is a very cause, now that the decision has the mportant part of his purpose in been taken to resist our own iso-

been to isolate the United States into collaboration. If he States have spent a long by exploiting

could its love of peace persunde us or prevent us from. time alternately applying and to encrete it by acts of which defeating him in the Battle of the toward the isolation und encircle- might not be Atlantic, there is no doubt that inent of Nazi Germany. This is hot and cold to their the consequences

visible to most of the people until he would offer us a negotiated our greatest role in the conflict.' policy in the Far East toit was too late to avoid them. peace. In alliance with Japan, It is of no value unless we pro-

succeeded, the with France his vassal, with South duce and deliver the goods.

But

make it just tepid enough, the policy

United States isolated and en- America compelled to follow him, we do produce and deliver the

one

ent. United

in

with

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0

suc-

way and the defeat of France, the!

tween North America and Great

Great aBritain, between

Britain and South America, between

condition of that

By Walter Lippmann

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 This war cannot be averted. by weakness, fear, or indecision. It can be averted by resolute

war.