The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-25
On the
World Front
20 U. S. Newspapermen-
on the Road to Japan
What will they write?
By HARRY CANNES

What will they write?
TWENTY American news.
L papermen have been Inc
vited by the japanese govern
ment to visit Manchuria and
observe the glories of im-
perialist domination at first
hand. They will soon be on
their way to Japan-transportation
paid-aboard the lugger, N. Y. K.
Japan Mail S. S. Coz lines. The
N. Y. K. lines, part of the Nit
subishi trust, are heavily subsidizef
by the Japanese government, BEN /,
part of the Japanese navy auxilial
No expenses will be spared fC
these American journalists. The a
will be wined and dined by th
japanese military clique. The jap
anese press will fatter them, ca
jole them, PROSTATE itself to them.
Geisha girls will dance and sing
for them. Asahi beer and saki
will flow freely, in the good old
spirit of the American feet streets.
VMHEN the Wall Street journalists
" are not cock-eyed, they will be
shown exactly what the japanese
want them to see. Undoubtedly one
of the choice social experiences Of
these scribblers the japanese milis
tary wish to win over for propa.
ganda for war against the Soviet
Union, will be personal visit to
Henry Pu vi, now Emperor of Man
chukuo, ardent admirer of Adolf
Hitler.
Now the japanese government ID
not going to throw away any hum
dred thousand dollar expense with~
out knowing exactly what it will re.
ceive in return. They tried it out
on the dog, as it were, before they
invited twenty at one gulp.
pECENTLY Francis w. Clarke,
N editor of the Atlanta (Georgia)
Constitution, went to Manchuria,
as the guest" of the japanese and
came back all aglow for the Won
derful work the Japanese butchers
were doing in that military-ridden
country.
Mr.. Clarke was a little unfor-
tunate, as it was discovered he had
been involved in very nasty
scandal, something in the form Of
bribery by the Japanese govern
ment some five years before.
Here is the story as told by the
China Weekly Review:
Mr.. Clarke rather spoiled his
story (of the wonders of Japanese
rule in Manchuria) by referring
to the fact that he had toured
Manchuria previously, about five
years ago as member of the
touring party which Travelled
under the auspices of the Car
negie Peace Foundation.
IF we remember correctly that
touring adventure which was par
ticipated in by a number OF
American journalists ended in a
scandal, for the United Press dug
up the fact that all the expenses
for the jaunt had been betrayed
by the japanese government
controlled south Manchurian
Railway, and that each member
of the party not only received a
free ticket across the Pacific and
through the Orient, paid for by
the japanese, but also received .
check for some $1,000 for incl
dental expenses"
NOV with such newspaper owners
~ as Irenee du Pont, j. P. Morgan,
and others interested in supplying
imperialism with arms and money
for war against the Soviet Union,
we may be sure the Japanese know
what they are doing when they in
yite a score Of journalists from some
of the leading American newspapers
for a visit to Manchuria at this
particular time.
Price is no consideration with
the Japanese when buying the pens
of typewriters of foreign corres-
pondents. There Is, for example,
the case Of George Bronson Rea,
former editor of a so-caAed en-
cheering journal in China, who
was paid the sum of $4,000 a year
and Expenses" for becoming tbs
Counsellor of the Ministry of For
eign Affairs Of the Government Of
Manchukuo.
IDEAS chief contribution to world
~ enlightenment was number of
speeches in American and European
universities, the gist of which was
that the entire capitalist world
would be grateful to Japan If the
japanese militarists wiped the So
Wet Union off the map.
1t is strange, also, that the Amer
lean capitalist press has kept SO
quiet about twenty of its picked
representatives going to Manchuria,
perhaps, to act as war correspond
ents, in the pay of the japanese
government.
IN month or SO we can expect
flood of laudatory stories about
His Imperial Highness Hirohito of
Japan, about what charming gentle
mon tho Iopopoeo ,,o;1;tor,, oro.
what great, self-sacrificing deeds
the Japanese bloodhounds are per-
forming in Manchuria, and what a
bunch of wild plotters the Soviet
employees of the Chinese Eastern
Railway are.
From the moment these twenty
picnickerS arrive on board the
N. Y. K. line at San Francisco, until
they return to these shores, they
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