The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-14
PACIFIC THREAT
 IS ONE REASON

Continued from Page D plexities, like German influence in Iran were creating rising concern.
 Soviet resistance for the first time convinced many doubters that Germany can be defeated. Instead of encouraging Roosevelt and Churchill to relax, however, the hurling of roughly four-ffths of German armed power against Rus sia impelled the premier and presi- dent to prepare yet more telling ac- tion.
 These issues alone would explain why Messers Roosevelt and Church Ill decided to sit down with their service chiefs and, in an intimate personal chat, thresh out the sLra- tegic and political problems facing them.
 Had these natives failed to clinch their meeting, Japan's defiance of all American and British appeals and warnings to keep within bounds clearly seems to have doen the trick.
 Recent British, Australian, Dutch East Indies staff talks are reported to have progressed so smoothly that the president and Prime Minister Churchill probably discussed the next defense measures in the Pacific. If Britain, Australia and the Netherlands East Indies were to conclude a defensive alliance the United States would be expected to view that development favorably. Sypmathetic Attitude
 Washington might indicate it's sympathetic attitude while making clear that the integrity of the Dutch East Indies comes within the framework of American se- curity.
 The two leaders of the democrac- racies are assumed to have ex- amined fully the consequences of a further Japanese advance to the south in Thailand and of the in- creasing concentration of Japan's l armed forces near Siberia.
 It is possible thaet they had be- fore them the latest information reaching London, according to which Japan plans by the beginning of September to double its. 240,O00- strong Manchukuo garrison.
 To the 16 divisions previously sta- tionedl in Manchukuo Japan is re- pordted already to have added four, two each from home forces and troops hitherto in China. Tokyo's timetable is said to con- template the dispatch of another 10 or II divisions to Manchukuo within the next two or three weeks. Even if the Japanese assembled about half million soldiers in Man brukuo they would remain in ap- preciable numerical inferiority to the opposing Soviet armies across the Amur.
 Ready for Japan The American and British gov- ernments have already indicated their readines to act if Japan con- tinues moving south. But President Roosevelt and Premier Churchill maly wei have clarified their coun- tries attitude toward the threat ened Japanese stab in the back of Russia while the Red armies are embattled against the Germans in the west.
 i Then, too, hints of Japan's unwill- ingness to contenance the flow of American, British empire and Dutch supplies to Vladivostok appeared to demand clarifying as to whether the United States and the allies would tolerate the Japanese attempt to interrupt that supply line.
 The joint Roosevelt Churchill dec- laration following their conference naturally uncovers no strategic or political secrets, but its renewed bold promise of collaboration against the aggressors is expected soon to be translated into action on the seven seas and five continents.