The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-26

possible unless they Aave1 the most
urgent reasons for remaining
there. Cur naval personnel. ma
rines and ambass3dorial and con-
sular STATS do have urgent reasons
for staying onthelr ioos, but menu
bers Of their families are being
brought hsma as fast as ships are
ayailabie/to carry them.
Tollo has turned abuormally po-
lite TO tie British also. Conse-
quently Austraha's anl New Zea-
lands governments have advised
their folk to be prepared for al
most anything unpleasant on the
shortest kind Of notice.
There's nothing inconsistent
about it.
The Japs VIGOROUSLY want &c
gobble up all If Britain's and
Frances southern Asiatic main
land toothclds and the Dutch East
Indies. With the home Netherlands
completely under Eitler's thumb,
France fat on its back and Eng
land fully preoccupied in its own
immediate vicinity, now evidently
seems to EN- to be an ideal time
to do their gobbling.
Fats Accompl
II they can, however, they nat
urally would like to 20 it in COM
parative peace and comfort, for
themselves They're anxious not
to antagonize the United States If
they can avoid doing so. That is,
they're anxious not to dc so until
their grabs, above mentioned, are
what diplomats call fats accom-
plr-accomplished facts, in plain
English. Later, after the fats
really are accompli, they probably
won't care so much. But while
they're doing the accompling, they
greatly prefer not to have their at
tention distracted from the job, as
it certainly would be If they got
into war with us prematurely.
Germany, to be sure, wants
Japan t. become involved with us
today or tomorrow or the next
day, at the latest, since 1t couldn't
but hamper US in helping Britain.
The Japs, though, think Of their
own interest ahead Of their Axis
partners, and their games to
stave off clash with Uncle Sam
uel for the present. That's why
they're so polite TO him. They've
hoped he'd sucker enough TO
take their affability at face value.
Apparently ne isn't TO judge from
our warning to our nationals in
the Orient.
It's taken for granted that the
Mikado has his eye on the Philip
pines, but the best guessing is that
he won't try to swoop down there
while they're under our fiag-not
unless a Jap-American var starts
before the date for their independ-
ence, four years hence. Then it's
considered very likely that he will.
A good many Filipinos think so
and don't want to be Independent
on that basis.
Well, why's Toxic polite to Brit
ain?
The fact is that il isn't particu-
larry polite TO London. AS an Axis
partner, il can't but be considered
at war with the English islanders.
II serves the Mikado's purpose,
however, to be as polite as eireum-
stances permit TO Australia and
New Zealand.
His grab program. II generally
is agreed. includes these two do
minions, il, the long run. It in
cludes India likewise. Jap states
men have said so,
Distant Detectives
But Australia, New Zealand and
India ate rather distant detectives
And, as 10 Australia and New Zea-
land India should be easy picking
II Britain blows up, an the United
States can be STAYED off, those
two might oe rather bothersone to
Nippon, If ugly before it gets fully
around TO attend 70 EN-. There
fore, Tokios polite to EN- and It
scares EN- like everything. They
are in Japan's pretty near neigh
borhood and quite understand what
Japanese Politeaess signifies.
So DO the Fihpinos.
Russ!a's quite problem The
huscovltes. as traditional enemies