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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1941,

CHINA MAIL

WINDSOR HOUSE

NO BUSINESS WITH HITLER

When a publisher · ad- vertises a book or an author hints that some- thing he has written is very good, indeed, no one thinks it odd. When seven private citizens who don't know the author and have no connection with the publisher spend their own private money to advertise a book, peo- ple may wonder why. The book in this instance is "You Can't Do Business with Hitler," the author Douglas Miller, formerly American commercial | attache in Berlin, The private citizens are Ray- mond Clapper, John Kier- an, Albert D. Lasker, Mrs. Dwight L. Morrow, Carl Van Doren, Matthew Woll and Wendell L. Willkie.

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Japan Volcano

Wherever the Nazi Fifth Col-1 net um has achieved Rumania, Norway

The why of this paid public statement by seven private citizens is that Mr. Miller has condensed into some forty-odd thou- sand words an authorita- tive explanation of what Nazism is, what it has done in Germany, what it is doing and plans to do! it in Europe, and what can do in the western hemisphere if it is victor-the past decade. ious elsewhere.

and

practically (in Privy Council. Success

France), OF

Hata Forces The Issue there have been political malcon- tents, economic unrest and Inter- These are the fac- nal disunity. tors the Fifth Column exploits to gain control of governinents.

What

this

the

the entire Japan must secure for her.

the Japanese will get from deat remains a mystery, but militarists are prepared to plunge Through the vigilance of the Japan into a disastrous war rather Metropolitan Police (not the than relinquish the power they Kempcital), a score of armed have seized. "gorotsuki" were arrested, most- ly hiding in the gardens of their would-be victims.

it

In more ways than one, the Germans are gambling against. time, for thus far only a very few Japanese realise the danger the Fifth

presents to Japan. In this connection, must be borne in mind that not only the people at large, but also the majority of Government off- cials, even in the Home have no inkling that a Nazi Fifth Column functions in their coun- try.

And so it is in Japan. Japan has had at least four rightist revolutionary plots In

Column There was the May 15 affair of 1932, followed by the Kinkijiken, or Brocade Flag incident in 1933, the details Americans can't do of which are buried in darkest business with Hitler be- secrecy, for it involved a plot hy "young officers" of the 3rd Regi- cause Nazism makes no ment at Roppongi, Tokyo, to over- and place

pretence of keeping treat-throw the Emperor

Prince Chichibu on the Throne.

the cuine

ies; because it is so organ~ Then

well-known ised and its followers so! February 26 military uprising off

1936, and the less well-known

If this wholesale murder of leading moderate advisers to the Throne had succeeded, it would have been the signal for a military coup d'etat and the establishment of a military dictatorship.

Although the plot misfired, the Yonai Cabinet was sabotaged by Gen. Shunroku Hata, War Minis-

By Charles N. Spinks

the

Office;

If The Story Gets Out

This is due to the peculiar con- stitution of Japanese bureaucracy which is divided into water-tight compartments wherein one group' take advantage of these politico-

of officials has no idea what an ter, a staunch champion of military upheavals. Last summer, the Nazi Fifth Column attempt-Nazi alliance and the new politi- other is doing. Through the use ed direct, if somewhat premature, cal structure, who resigned and of Japanese go-betweens and key refused to name a successor officials, who naturally do not Cabinets in Japan rahnöt exist disclose their connections, the without War and Navy Ministers Nazis are able to influence, Inter

the active list. Premier hal policies without risk of-"ex÷| Mitsumasa Yonal (a Navy many posure. had no choice bit to resign.

action.

For six months the moderate

Yonal Cabinet had constantly op- posed the conclusion of a Japan- ese-German military alliance and the renovation of the Japanese political structure along totalitar- ian lines:

from

No. 1 Stooge:Out?

The Cabinet of Prince Kondye

trained that it cannot plot of July, 1940. make and keep peace; be-] The Nazis have not falled cause its racial theories require that all nations outside of Germany shall be slaye nations; because it does not scruple to de- populate countries in or-

Nevertheless, the Germans are well aware that trouble lies der to control them; be

ahead if the Japanese people cause if successful in

ever learn the full storyjaz -Europe it will immediate- In May and June last year the

There are many Japanese who which followed Germans began to move.

launched the have not yet

been convinced ly inspire Nazi revolutions, the German Ambassador totalitarian movement and cons that the Germans are their true in Latin America to make, and other Nazi Firth Columnists cluded the alliance with Ger- friends. They cannot overlöök the racini arrogance of the Teu- that region hostile to addressed crowds at public rallies, many

haranguing them on the benefits, By July 16, 1941, just one year ton, the insulting references to America, because it will of political reformation after the later, this Cabinet had reached Asiatics-including the Japanese another of those periodle ime found in Hitler's "Mein Kampf” then try to isolate and German model.

passes. The totalitarian move and other pan-Aryan German cheat America, sabotage

ment has bogged down, Japan writings. has still failed to profit by the The latent forces of anti-for- her industries, choke her

desperate union with Germany | eignism in Japan which the Nazis trade, and either starve

and now faces a new crisis-over | and Japanese militarists have sti- them out or dictate their

the Soviet German war.

mulated and directed into an anti- economic, political and Social life.

Gen

Shoved-Konoye In- As-Premier

Indications Of A Reversal

Behind the scenes contact-men and go-betweens were working in order to get rid of Foreign British and more recently an anti- feverishly to encourage the Minister Matsuoka, who had American hatred have, acted as a totalitarian movement and the negotiated conflicting agreements safety-valve for the Japanese peo- Axis alliance, Patriotic societies, with Germany and Russia, the ples' sense of frustration from an largely financed by German Cabinet resigned, the cards were unsuccessful war in China. The United States will funds, were in a frenzy of rage reshuffled and Matsuoka is out, either see that Hitler is with the "obstructionist tactics along with Toshio Shiratori, Gen. Lat the governmenti". www: Ott's No. 1 stooge. It is too car- beaten or Hitler will see Supported by the German-Am-ly to determine whether this is that country is enslav-bassador, two ex-War Ministers just a political move or whether

But there are few British and ed or ruined, We hope Gen Juichi Terauchi (who had this may be the first step to free

officially represented the Jap Japan from German domination. Americans left in Japan-to-day. those who loathe war and anese army before a Nazi con Regardless of the present If conditions continue to déteri- cherish national isolationventionat Nuremberg in Sept Cabinet change, the Japanese orate and if the position of Jopan ember, 1939) and Gen. Suglyama, Army and Its Fascist supporters becomes more precarious (even will read the statement cajoled and threatened Prince Fu- realise their desperate position barring war with the democra- and the book. There will mimaro Konove until he agreed Unless the army can recoup its cles), the Japanese people will fo head the reformist movement fortunes by a southern gamble turn against the only remain- plenty of war for But still the determined Yonal or by a successful campaign in ing foreign influence In Japan Americans if they let Cabinet blocked every move. It Siberia, it will lose face and Gen. Ott and his army of Fifth

was then, in the first days of political powers Hitler win in Europe, and July, that direct action was at The Germans are also des Already thero pre straws in the there will be precious lit- templect A group of obscuro perate. American ald to Brit- wind. A few months ago the political fanatics, instigated by pin must 'ba deflected by wife of a German Embassy offl tle isolation if they have Army Fascist cliques working Japanese American war in the cial was severely beaten on a needs the train by a Japanese fellow travel- to fight him on their own with the Nazi Fifth Column, at- Pacific. Germany

tempted to assassinate the re- Japanese Fleet, and the vital war ler. There have been other at- side of the Atlantic

tractable members of the Cabi- materials of Eastern Asia which tacks on Germans and Italians,

be

Columnists.--

sufficient