The Omaha guide., 1935-03-30
Hitler Helps Abyssinia
and Japan
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more sense than American states
men have, you know. We would
be offering them a fool challenge,
and some fool among them may
take it up even without the con-
sen. of the japanese government.
And then our national HONOR
whatever that is, would be hurt
and in jeopardy and-five mil
lions Of u best young men and
forty billions of the dollars OF
posteri y would be on their way
to the bottom Of The great Pacific
Ocean. And the Pacific is big
enough to take ali we are willing
@ sink into it.
Well, the United States al
least has a good chance yet to
save its face; he most sensible of
is citizens, including the leaders
Of its great churches and its
peace loving, justice seeking or
CARNATIONS, are pleading with out
President and our Navy Depart
ment % cancel those useless, ex-
pensive and dangerous Pacific
maneuvers. The United States
now has a good chance to yield
to this home sen iment and pres
sure. There has been no demand
from Japan, so that we will not
be yielding to any pressure from
the japanese. The japanese gov
eminent knows hat the Pacific
is free and open to any nation
for war games or other games.
The japanese people perhaps feel
as do the people of the United
STATES; that this var game is In
reality an unfriendly gesture,
even though it is automatically
correct. What would we think ii
the japanese navy decided o ca
wort around the Hawaiian Islands,
or even around the Phi ippines-
as an answer to the fact that the
Americans refused % repeal the
japanese exclusion act? The
japanese are not aware that our
"war game" was an answer to
the fac, that Japan refused to re-
new a treaty which made. the
japanese navy inferior to our
own.
Hitler now gives America some
thing more to think about. If he
starts a war, it will be impossible
for us to be indifferen, to that
war. We can stay out of The war
and out Of the fighting, PER-
HAPS, blu, we cannot slap out OF
the consequences Of such a war
and we cannot isolate ourselves
from it's deadly influences. Our
public loans to European nations
are already lost but a new wal
there would des our already
precarious priva.e interests il
Europe. There would be a great
temptation for America to join
in another war on the side OF
England and France. And if the
war las,ed long-only heaven
knows, but we can make a rea.
sonable guess.
If Hitter started a war this
minute, or this year, he would
face England, France, Italy, the
Balkans, The Austrians ruling re
gime, Russia, perhaps Poland
and the moral opposition Of the
rest of the world. Where would
Japan sand? Perhaps they would
be the only first class natlon that
could possibly remain neutral-ir
return for the non-molesta ion OF
their movements on continental
Asia by either Russia or America
We advise Italy to make a rea-
sonable peace with Abyssinia. We
advise white Americans to forget
that the japanese are an Gin
1efl0r Race, ana TO acC TOWARD
heir Asiatic ambitions just as we
would act toward England OF
France in the same circumstances.
The reason we give this advice
Hitler and Germany and the pos
sibilities of vast interests being
put at stake for all Europe and
for America-Like most men OF
destiny, Hitler does not know
what he is doing he is just NOV
ing along what seems to be The
path Of self interest.
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