The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-07
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LEADERS FAN
HATE OF U. 5.
Real Danger of War Seen
as Toxic Reaches Out
to Fulfill Destiny
AMERICA BLOCKS PATH
Crisis ConfrOntS League in
Action to Be Taken on
Lytton Report.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SINfNfS
Seripps-HO Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON. Oct. THE far
eastern and peace pact crisis has
brought the United States face to
face with the very real danger of
being dragged into an unwanted
war.
This is not the talk Of a lingo or
an alarmist. 1t means simply that
world events are shaping in that di-
rection-that Stupendous interna-
tional ferment is at work in the far
east, imperiling peace, and that
equally powerful forces, over there
and in Europe are threatening to
pull or push us in.
China, the most populous country
on earth, is in a state of transi-
ton. Like Japan before her, she is
changing from ancient to modern
ways. Soon, as history reckons time,
she is bound to become either the
greatest power of the Orient, else
disappear as a nation from the map.
She either will go to pieces, per-
haps partitioned among stronger
powers, or become a dominant power
herself.
Japan Aware of Peril
OF this Japan is keenly aware. To-
day Japan is mistress of the West
ern Pacific. Tomorrow, if China's
450, 100000 people unite and become
modernized, Japan's 100000 will
be at their mercy
Such is one of the colossal forces
at work in Asia. To save herself,
as Japan sees it, she must stop
China while she can. To wait, her
military men fear, will be too late.
China will have become strong.
Before that time arrives, however,
big, backward China must complete
her unification and modernization.
She must cross the bridge separat-
ing the past from the present.
Guarding that bridge, covering
China's passage and protecting her,
is the new world-peace machinery
that is to say, the nine-power
treaty, the Kellogg pact and the
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Nippon Gives Warming
If the peace machinery proves
effective, according to the Lytton
report to the league, both Japan
and China can work out their des-
TIMES side by side to the vast bene-
fit of both and of the world.
Japan, however, believes that only
by expanding on the Asiatic main
land, at China's expense, can she
work out her manifest destiny" as
great empire. And she boldly has
announced that whatever or who
ever dareS come between her and
that destiny will be brushed aside
ruthlessly.
The fate of the peace machinery,
therefore, is in the balance. If it
fails in the coming test 1T Geneva,
Lord Cecil, league advocate, de-
clares, the world will revert % con-
ditions infinitely worse than pre-
war, when force was all that mat
tered.
Today, it so happens, the prin-
cipal champion of world peace is
the United States. The strongest
pressure to make Japan live up to
the nine-power treaty and the other
peace pactS, has come from Wash
ington.
Britain, France Sidestep
Britain and France, the other
two principal factors, have been
strangely reluctant. The sympa-
thy Of the London government has
seemed with Japan and that of
Paris has appeared no less so.
The United States has taken the
initiative in practically every move
to make the peace machinery effec-
tive. 1t has been so far in the lead
that Britain and France have not
yet even caught up.
The result has been to put the
United States in post of grave
danger. Japan has come to regard
American as her enemy-perhapS
her chief enemy Only the Uniteo
States, as she views it, is blocking
her road to a new continental en-
pire in Asia. Only the United
States stands between her and her
place in the sun.
Public opinion in Japan is at fever
pitch. 1t is said to be nearly 100
per cent behind the militarists. A
sort of wartime psychology has
taken hold Of the people. Even
the liberals seem to have lost their
heads.
Print American Spy Stories
American spy stories are widely
printed in the newspapers. Weird
and impossible tales of American
preparations for war are current,
even in the ordinarily liberal press.
On top of all this, cult o. Jap
anese invincibility Is being preached
by the n7ilitarists. Returning travel
ers tell the same story The Jap
anese masses all seem to believe war
with the United States is neces-
sary, sooner or later, and that ia
pan will be victorious.
There is the danger. America
dOCS 4AOs VAIN wal. Japan OOSS uOS
want war. But the Japanese ap-
parently are being led to believe
they must fight to save their en-
pire, and if America allows herself
to be pushed too far forward in the
present clash between Japan and
the rest Of the world. Japan sud-
denly may strike in the belief Amer
lea alone is in her way.
Saturday-Why Japan Thinks She
Could Win.
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