The Washington times., 1939-01-13
(News map by Staff Artist Bourne)
The new Rangoon- Yunnan Road

tNs~' map by Staff Artist Roun peace pact and
The Rangoon Yunnan Road neutrality law put
premium on hypocrisy in these matters
Here are the twos we've been adding up
Last Tuesday the National Munitions Control Board
made public letter circulated last July by State
Department to all aircraft manufacturers and ex-
porers in this country That letter asked these firms
cooperation in keeping American planes from getting
to nations whose armed forces made practice of
bombing civilian populations. Of course, Japan
the nation meant. (Rebel Spain as we'll as Loyalist
Spain, can't get American planes under neutrality
law
The Munitions Control Board rather proudly reported
that since this letter went the rounds Japanese purchases
of American planes have practically ceased. Only ere
cacitran" American plane manufacturer kept on selling
planes to Japan.
Another of these items concerns the news of the
RangoonYunnan Road mapped above. The Chinese have
just hooked these two points into communication by
1,4OOme road building job which observers call phe
nomenal. The road makes it simple matter to ship
munitions to Chang Ka-Shek and his hordes of guer-
ras in the interior of China. The Japanese blockade
can't extend around to Rangoon because the great British
naval base at Singapore is in the way.
Still another item those American and British
loans to China our share up to date is S25OOOOOO, and
the British at least that much more), with which the
Chinese buy American and British war material.
We think the Tokyo newspaper, Nichi Nich is behind
the times in its Wednesday warning to it's public that "a
strong Anglo-Amercan policy in relation to Japan" is
n. likely to be formed. We
T1"'0' ~" "''~ H'9'~''" think that policy already
Are Finhtinn Tnnnn has been formed, and
that the United States
and Great Britain are now making economic war on
Japan through the medium of the Chinese
Well, that is the way the British Empire was built
chiefly. Britain financed various of its friends and let
them do most of the fighting after which Britain stepped
in and collected.
II we can fight that kind of with Japan it will be
much pleasanter kind of war for us than an armed
conflict Incidentally it will be far more sensible war
for to fight than any in Europe that we can now
visualize
After ALL the japanese have in for the white race If
they win the Chinese they will sweep around through
the Philippines Hong Kong the Malay States the Dutch
East Indies, Australia, New Zealand. This may be the
time to take them and the Chinese, properly financed
and armed by America and England may be the heaven
sent instruments to do the taking for us.
We believe there should be no hafhearted steps in this
struggle. An American-Brtsh long-dstance blockade
of Japan appears be the next logical step and we see
no reason for hesating past the psychological moment
President Roosevelt yesterday called for an emergency
national defense program to cost 1852 900 in add
tion to the bionplus spending per year on
the Army and Navy He is our Commander-in Chief if
he lives at least until January TO- 1941 Politics should
stop at the shorene We nothing for it but to follow
the CommanderinC Chief, and believe Congress should
pass the defense bills
"Our country-in her intercourse with foreign ma
tons may she always be right but country, right
or wrong"