Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-12-16
Jap Samurai
Rule Nation
Hereditary Militaris-
tic Class Not Counter
part to Fascists or
Nazis.
Nv CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt)

U5-ningtcn, Dec. l6.-To forgive
the Germans for permitting Adolf
fl. nazIly them is difficult. in fact,
,~ impossible right now The Ital-
..- .rll Tor BenIto MussolIm some
Mat more pardonubly, though this
isn't quite the right time to admit it.
ra. Inc manipulation OF the Jap
auc-c il ISN'T easy to fix the respon-
.#slg,y upon any single individual
lam They're dictated to by a COM
~n3ratAcIy small class, but by no par
,g!lar one man, whom It's possible
~ IDENTIFY enthusiastically.
However. it's interesting to con-
>qef how Adolf got to be fuehrer
and aoW Benito got to be duce ana
T. wonder how the Jap samurai, the
class reterred to, got its start.
ire Samural ldr an,cdate both
Adolf and Benito. They originated
before the dawn Of history, evolving
themselves out OF a According
II .Ycir own account. As between
Adolf and Benito, Benito registered
T., n duce. ahead Of Adolf, as a lueh-
rtl. Indeed, he ~patronized Adolf, as
freshman. when the latter was
ra>r introducing himself.
The last wars end found Italy in
u4tuI economic shape. Benito, then
a.Ite an ordinary but pretty prom
ncnt newspaper editor at Milan, mi
tatcd a campaign TO improve tn
STATION, creating the national faS-
els, organization to wage it with.
Either because he managed capably,
.I> -n1,1,, NV ,cniInrt +Hj,G-
bcgan 10 mend, which made Benito
increasingly strong. Perhaps not al
together Intentionally. in pushing a
generally popular program he drlited
pretty speedily into his dictatorlal
ta.e.
Benito's Aims Were Good
ANYWAY, Benito seems to have
AIMED originally at a fairly COM
mcnaDIc objective.
Adolf was an authoritarian from
me lump. as his look, "Mein kampi,'
written before he took off, plainly
Indicated. That his purpose, at that
s'uge of the game, was the soclallZa-
t.5n Of Germany rather than conquest
1T the world is possible. However,
he was a born dictator, not a tluke.
!, vas as a nazi tuehrer that he APP
Btared on the stage. At first he was
not as absolute a. he quickly be-
came. but it was no process OF eVolu-
ton. rs in Benito's case. H grabbed
BoWrr as fast as he could.
The Italians aren't as aggressive a
bunch as the Germans. They did do
SOME aggressing IN North Africa, but
Bcnlto, hft to himself, certainly
wouldn't have taken the Warpath on
80 large a scale as Adolf led the
Germans to hotfoot, apparently with
enthusiasm on their part.
Italv's declaration OF war against
the United States isn't regarded IN
Washington as of much consequence,
The IMPRESSION is that Benito de-
clared it because Adolf told him to
and h didn't dare to refuse. It ISN'T
geekoned that he can do anything
Very formidable, anyway. He mere
~ geStured as per Adolt's order. It's
in the cards that he'll lose by II, al
that. in North Africa, where he
thought he'd created a colonial en-
pre-.
The Jap's samurai, as observed
ABOVE, manufactured themselves
ages ago. They're not a society,
Ike the nazis and tasciStS. They are
Samurai by heredity, They swear BY
the spirit Of Bushido, their patron
SAINT or a kind Of a god. To die for
Japan is their creed, only they don't
want to die without killing every
body else in sight first,
Or the trio-Adolt, Benlto and
F4mW- aggregatIon-the samural
are rated as most Immediately dan
gerouS to the United States.
Adolf is so fully occupied N
Europe that it isn't believed he can