The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
JAPANESE HATE
BEING famed
AGAINST u. S.
Work of European Powers
Seen in Efforts to Gre
ate DiStruSt.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Oct. l3.-Propa-
ganda deliberately calculated to fan
Japanese hostility to the United
States to a warlike pitch in puz-
cling, worrying and irritating Wash
ington.
Not the least disturbing fact in
the situation is that it is not merely
the japanese jingoes who are par
ticipating in this strange work, but
certain important European powers
appear to be putting in their oar.
The mischief makers not only are
resorting to half-truths in this
highly dangerous game, but are
manufacturing rumors out of the
whole cloth to suit purposes clear
only to themselves.
Broadly, the United States is be-
ing pictured ass the devil behind
every obstacle Japan finds in the
road to her cherished place in the
SUM-" And unless this unwarranted
interference and antagonism to
Japan ceases" the Amur Society of
Japan warns, seeds for a possible
clash between the two countries"
will be sown.
Treaty Story Traced
japanese newspapers recently dis
played a story alleging a secret
treaty between the United States
and Mexico for a naval base at
Magdalena bay, Lower California
the inference being that here was
another move against Japan. This
story was traced back to an attache
representing a friendly" European
power.
Another piece of news" broadcast
in Japan was that a secret treaty
had been negotiated whereby the
United States was to provide China
with a vast air force to enable the
latter to fight Japan.
Americas recent $50 900, 900 wheat
sale to China has been twisted by
propagandiSts out of all semblance
to verify, the Japanese public be-
ing told that the deal concealed
an effort on the part of the United
States to back China against Nip
pom.
Blamed in Naval Ratio
Uncle Sam is seen behind the
hostile world reception met with by
japan for her seizure Of Manchuria,
the League of Nations stand caus-
! ing Japan's withdrawal from that
BODY. the adverse report OF Lord
Lytton, and Japan's three-to-flve
naval ratio with Great Britain and
the United States.
All these things, the japanese
public is being told, are the result
of American hostility.
Indirectly America even is blamed
for the recent wave of murder which
has swept the island empire. Be
cause America imposed upon ia
pan" an inferior and humiliating
naval ratio" the Amur Society ex-
plains, it became necessary for the
Blood Brotherhood and other patri-
otto groups to act.
AS they accepted the "humilia-
tion,' Premiers Hamaguchi and Inu-
kai, Finance Minister Inouye and
Baron Dan were asSasSinated, Adj
miral Kato was removed as chief Of
the naval staff and Captain Kusa-
kari committed harakiri.
Hands Off Policy Urged
Thus, like an evil strain running
though everything untoward that
happens in or to Japan, is the theme
of American responsibility. It's grave
and cumulative effect on the masses
hardly can be exaggerated.
ST America sincerely is DESTROYS
of an amicable solution of the out
standing problems with Japan" says
the Amur Society, "She should keep
her hands off the Manchurian and
Chinese problems, respect other ma
tons claims to naval parity and re-
frain from imposing her own will
upon them"
War between Japan and the
United States, it is felt here, would
profit neither but be a tragedy to
both, and bleed both countries white.
1t would remove both of them for
years from world commerce, leaving
the field entirely to the major
powers of Europe. Here, it re-
luctantly is admitted, may be found
a clew to third-party activities tend
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