The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-23

Under all the ordinary rules
of the game, Kisaburo Suzuki,
president Of the Seiyukai, or
dominant party, should have
succeeded the murdered pre-
mier.
But pressure was brought TO bear
against the civilian and Admiral
Viscount Saito was named today
by Emperor Hirohito instead.
Ruled by big Stick"
Thus, while the world anxiously
awaits the frequently predicted
clash between Japan and Soviet
Russia over Manchuria, the party
of the big stick has obtained for
itself a free hand at Toxic. The
civilian element within the govern
ment now is only a shadow The
empire has gone back to feudalism,
10 a dictatorship Of the clans or
Satsuma and Choshiu-the army
and the navy.
Amazing though it seems TO out
siders, the japanese militarists are
demanding farm relief and fewer
favors for the moneyed class. In
western lands, the generals and the
adnirals devote themselves to big
ger and better armies and navies.
Congressmen from agricultural
districts usually are the exclusive
champions of the farmer. and 1t Is
left mostly TO the Communists 70
denounce capitalism. Yet in Japan
the general staff appears TO be doing
all these. and more.
Would Form Autarchy
Aim of the militarists in Nippon.
however. is the formation OF an
utarchy-complete naturalization
of the country's economics and
finances to make itself absolutely
self-contained.
To accomplish this. as the general
staff sees it, the japanese farmer as
well as industrialist must be able
TO make himself self-supporting
within the boundaries Of the empire.
Accordingly. part Of Asia must
be brought under the flag Of the
rising sun. cost what it may. Korea,
annexed in 1910, does not fill the
bill. South Manchuria. taken over
from Russia in 1905, is not enough.
All Manchuria, eastern Inner
Mongolia and - many japanese
claim-the Maritime provinces OF
Siberia, belonging to Russia, are
necessary TO make Japan self-Sup-
porting and sufficient unto herself.
The appalling danger to which
this program exposes the world IS
clear. Already the japanese army
is fighting inside the Russian zone
in northern Manchuria, astride the
Chinese eastern railway, jointly the
property Of China and the Soviet
Union.
Ready for Conflict
And at Vladivostok, Russia's east
ern seaport and railway terminus, a
big force of defenders is waiting,
while all along the trans-Siberian
line everything is reported to be IN
readiness 10 IuSAl l0lAlAJANGAhCAlbos
What will happen, Of course. only
a handful Of people know. 1t de-
ponds upon four main factors. First,
what is in the minds Of the jap
anese general staff. Second. just
how far France and Great Britain,
in particular. and some Of the other
European nations in general will 60
with Japan just now in support Of
an attempt to crush Soviet Russia.
Third, the extent of China'S chaos
and. fourth, the attitude of the
United States.
World problems. like politics, make
strange bedfellows. The interest of
China, Russia, and the United
States are almost identical, yet Rus
STA and China are not speaking. and
the United States does not recognize
the Soviet Union.
Historically. the European powers
would welcome, at least in principle.
the dismemberment OF China, but
America, Russia and China stand to
benefit by exactly the reverse.