Evening star., 1941-11-08
Chinese Leader Asks
u. 5. 10 Join Powers
To Knock Out Japan
Burmo Rood 'BIitz' Seen
As Buck-Door Attack
On America, Britain
BY ROYAL ARCH GUNNISON,

CHUNGKING, Nov. 8 (By Wire
less to N. A. N. AD.-Dr. Quo Tai
chi, China's new Foreign Minister,
today said it was apvlous that Japan
was using China's back door to at
tack the United States and Great
Britain IF, as expected, it all-out
blitzes the Burma road"
In an exclusive interview the For
eign Minister invited the "ABCD"
powers CAmerica, Britain, China and
the Dutch East Indies) and Russia
Ito pool all their forces for a stra-
tegic knockout blow against Japan"
I have just returned from the
Lashio-Kunming area of the Burma
road. Enormous quantities of
American war supplies are flowing
into China. The average now is
about 10000 tons per month and it
will soon be increased to 10000
tons.
"Stop Japan" Move Suggested.
DR.. Quo said that China's funda-
mental defenses Of this vital life
line are rough terrain, some of the
worlds worst malaria country and
new anti-aircraft and field artillery.
Ohcial China expects that a thrust
against the Burma road will be
Japan's next move. The Foreign
Minister suggested a double-bar-
relied program to stop the Nipponese
in their last desperate attempt to
succeed as an Axis partner in crack
ing America and Britain through
the Burma road. which is China S
equivalent to Englands Atlantic
convoy route"
DR.. Quo's first suggestion is that
the democracies send "operational"
squadrons of fighter and bomber
aircraft to China where provision
will be made for their successful
operation as an international air
force against common enemy. AS
he has just returned from England
where he went through last falls
intensive blitz raids and has spent
summer in Chungking under
Japanese raids. DR.. Quo has had
bombing experience and under
stands the indispensability OF a
strong air force.
He feels that If the United States
takes the lead in sending more
planes to China, in the same way
that 1t is sending its warships into
the Atlantic, Australia, the Neither
lands and Russia are ready to join
and the British will follow, since
Burma and Malaga are directly in
the path of the Japanese drive
toward the Burma Road.
Indo- China Drive Urged.
His second suggestion is a COM
bined "A B C D" push TO drive the
Japanese out of Indo-China. DR.
Quo stressed that there are not too
many japanese in the French colony
at the present time. He added. how
ever, that the Japanese garrison in
is threat to the safety
and peace Of the whole Pacific. and
even the world, as Indo-China is
Axis springboard in South
east Asia"
1T is about time" the FOREIGN
Minister said, that the 'ABC D.
group take the initiative. China
realizes that neither Britain nor the
United States wants to provoke a
Paclflc war, but it is time we all
realized that it is already provoked
and that the projected drive north
from 1ndo-C to the Burma road
Is the incident over which japan
ese morale and the war cabinet will
rise or completely be knocked out"
I interviewed DR.. Quo in his study
shortly after he had conferred with
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek. He
pointed out that Japan's cabinet had
been accorded dictatorial powers by
the Diet and that now Is the time
for the Pacific powers to get to-
gether and stop the Japanese.
THE "A B C D. powers will be
defending their own territory and
interests outside of their own coun-
tries by banding together in this
crisis and sending sufficient aircraft
and crews to operate successfully in
China, thus taking the strongest
possible stand in the face of Japan's
greatest threat in the history of the
modern Pacific"
DR.. Quo's talk with me was of a
most serious nature. belying his
usual jolly character. The whole
thesis Of his remarks was that today
is the most critical moment in the
Pacific. He said there was no time
for hesitancy and that every mo-
ment counts.
1--WE are not asking any country
to come and defend China or the
Burma Road" he said But more
than that there is the
necessity to halt aggression of the
worst Axis variety before it spreads
and gets out of control"
The Foreign Minister spent con-
time explaining that the
entire world already is involved in
a shooting war and that declara-
tions of war are outmoded. AS exam
Piles he cited the China incident
and recent American Atlantic sink
ings.
Called weakest Axis Link"
1T is much better completely to
eliminate this menace from the Pa
cific," DR.. Quo said, land then for
all of us to spend every effort in
Europe aiding Britain and Russia.
One of the most vital ways to aid
Russia and Britain is to clip ia
pan, which as an Axis partner. is
to split the British
forces between the Far East and
Europe and then do the same to the
Russian forces in Siberia. Keeping
the Burma Road open and American
and British supplies flowing to
China is as essential to resistance of
Axis aggression as maintenance of
the policy of freedom of the seas
in the Atlantic to keep supplies flow
ing to England"
The Chinese statesman stressed
that Japan is the weakest link in
the Axis chain" and cited as proof
Of this current economic and finan-