The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-09
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You don't have 10 De on OuV'O'''y
on international power politics to IL
cure out Why the VichY government in
vited japan to occupy ond protect
French lndo-Chno. The Mochiovel-
lion hond Of Hitler con be clearly seen
IL this potentially explosive move The
yichy government is completely O
pown Of the Nozis And Hitler, who
IS now fighting the two-frcnt war which
10 always sold he would ovoid. may
profit materially from trouble in the
Poetic. So long as the japanese sober
rottIers remain in power and pursue
sl,eir imperial policy. it will be neees-
scry to keep much Of the American
Movy in the Pacific. ond it will o'so be
necessory to divert much OF our Army
UYd miIitory supplies to our Poetic
possessions II is altogether likely thot
What Hitler would like to see is q full
dress war between Japan and the Unit
"a Stotes, in order to keep US from CIV
ina noxinum old to Britoin.
This governments reaction to Jo-
por's move into lndo- Chino wos pre-
cissly what wos expected We have
loaa5bson criticized for permitting oil
exports to the Nipponese-ond it is on
irunicot foct that while we have been
GIVING our moral support and Some mo-
tefjo( support to Chino, we have oiso
ben supplying japan with most Of the
uosoline tt1dt has made the war ogoinst
Chino possible. President Roosevelt,
oueried at a press conference, sold
fronkly that the government hod per-
mitted oil exports in the belief thot>i it
No shut off these vital supplies, japan
would at once ottempt to seize lndo-
Chino and other rich areas, and so
cause Poetic war Of the first mo9ni-
4lde. In other words, the government
NOS trying to locolize conflict. Thot
policy has NOW proven failure. A
start toward an emboroo on oil COM
Haeece with Japan has been mode, and
Britoin ond her possessions have fol-
lowed suit.
From now on, Treasury license
will be needed to toke any Japanese
ossets out Of this country, or to send
onythino Of any kind to Jopon. As an
AP dispoteh sold. THE osset freezing
order put the Treasury in position to
turn the economic screws on Japan.
Just how hard they will be applied may
depend on future events in the Far
Eost."
Il is difficult to exoeeerote the i'm
portonce OF the economic Will we hold
over Hirohito's empire. Jopon buys
the bulk Of many vitoI supplies from
rs. On top of thot. we have long been
Jopon's best customer. Most experts
believe that IL japan loses the Aneri-
can rorkst. she will be in desperate
economic position. So for as we ore
epneened, our soIes to Japan ore but
Io drop in the bucket compared with
oslr totol trode. We buy nothing from
lopon we cannot do without. Mrs.
Arnerico moy have to foreoo silk
ss1oekinos in the future, and use substi-
mites such as nylon, but that can hard
~ b considered O greet hardship.
IN From, the purely military point Of
MN Japan has quite Job on her
hnnds. The war in Chino seems as far
p(p ecoclusion as ever, and involves
cnt06ous droin on japanese re-
ven as we'll as moterioIs.
l isp weoklino in the For Eost,
sHrrhill government is tax
g line with Jopon now os
ne event Of octuoI hostiIi-
z1Al collaboration between
IL unitod Stotes will un,
lfbWsd(otsly effected.
- 3hio country should
eot Singapore boss
- g.