The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-05-09

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Tosuke Matsuoka cuss the AXIS
peace proposal
On the basis Of German domination
IF Europe, except Russia, Japanese
domination Of the Orient, except
Siberia. Soviet domination of Euro
pean Russia and Asiatic Siberia,
and Of our reduction in the
strength of our navy and our
pledge o quit trying to consolidate
the Americas, North, South and in
termediate-if that's the notion. he
aeednt bother to come.
What Washington's diplomacy
yves. and the bosses of our armed
forces, too-especially our naval
command) would nightly like to
know. however, is what Russia is
up to. Ambassador Oumansky, the
Kremlin's representative here,
doesn't tell. Considering that Min
lister Matsuoka was in Moscow re-
Gently, where he chatted with Joe
Stain and signed up pact with
Soviet Comnissar Molotov, it's sur
missed that he may have an mixing
IS to the puzzles correct solution.
The Russo-Jap bargain was ra-
her friendly. That is. 1t was a neu-
.rality decker. It didn't seem as If
Moscow would be adopting a semi
ugly policy toward Toxic quite this
loon.
Yet the other day the Kremlin
placed a ban on the transportation
of war supplies Of any sort across
Soviet soil, either way.
Japan Hindered
This Is an obvious embarrass-
ment TO the Japs, who urgently re-
quire lots Of such supplies, with
which to fight the Chinese, to pre-
pare for grabs Of Singapore, Ma
laya, the Dutch East Indies, maybe
Australasia, and to arm in antici-
patton Of a possible clash with the
United States, They've been get
ting 'em from Germany. they've
had to cross Russia, and now
they're shut of.
The Russians, though, can con-
tinue supplying China with anti
japanese arms, shipped in through
the Chinese backdoor. There was a
suspicion that Joe Stain would
stop II, due to the Matsuoka- Molo-
TOW agreement, but II appears mat
he hasn't done so. Contrariwise.
Chinas supplies from Russia keep
coming. but Japans supplies from
Germany are shut of. Isn't that
queer, in view Of the Tokio-Moscow
deal?
But that isn't all Russia ana
Germany have a pact also-rather
loose, but friendly. Now, Germany
wants to arm the Japanese as
much as the Japs want to be
armed-to worry the United States
into staying in the Pacific instead
Of aiding England trans-atlantical-
ly. and to threaten or even hop on
the British in the Far East and
Whereabouts. Thus the Russian ban
looks like a swipe at Herr Hitler as
well as at the Mikado.
And neither's that all. Why Is Joe
Stain concentrating troops, as fast
as he can, along his German from
tier and his frontiers with the Ger
manized Balkans? Well, that isn't
much Of a secret. He's already
made II clear that he was Jealous
Of Herr Hitlers progress to the
southeastward, and it's evident
that he's fearful Of an out-and-out
German invasion Of Russia itself in
the Ukrain and Whereabouts. Adolf
himself is suspicious Of Joe's con-
centrations in Germany's neighbor-
hood, for it's Of record that he's
asked Joe to explain them, TO
which Joe answered that he was
sending swarms Of military planes
into the Ukrain TO spray wheat
crops with anti-insect dope during
the crop-growing season. II Adolf
believes that yarn he's pretty naive.
Russia Fearful
The best guess is that the Ger
mans aren't particularly afraid Of
the Russians, but that the Russians
are desperately afraid Of the Ger
mans, despite the compact between
the two countries. Reports, how
ever, are that the Muscovites have
been doing intensive missionary
work in Poland. Yugoslavia and
other vanquished or Germanly-
intimidated eastern and southeast
ern states and that they've made
plenty Of converts-not necessarily
that these folk want TO be Soviet
lied, but that they're wild to r'ar