The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-04

Churchill recently told parliament
that it'll be impossible short OF
194S. For the impatient chaps this
evidently won't be soon enough.
Illustratively. L. s. Production
Manager Donald Nelson suggests,
Lets stop thinking what we can
do TO the enemy in 1943 and begin
thinking about doing a-plenty to
'ent during early 1912
There's some difference of opin-
lon. though, as to where we should
strike first.
Col. w. F. Herman, one Of our
American strategists. IS just out
with a book. Defense VIII Not
Win the War in which he recon-
mends an immediate attack on
Italy, initially. It's the weakest
link in the AXIS chain, he observes,
undoubtedly can be knocked out in
the shortest time, and cracking 1t
loose, even wobbly as it is already,
can't but be darned bad, the colonel
thinks, for the rest Of the whole
totalitarian chains morale, to say
the least.
Before Pearl Harbor
Colonel Herman wrote his book,
however. before Japan was hooked
up with the Nazi and Fascist links.
There are critics who believe he
would have advocated start on
the Japs, as more urgently in need
Of attention, by the United States,
anyway, " he'd known. when he
was doing his writing, how much
Cain they'd be raising by the time
his volumne was due to make its
appearance.
The theory Is that Nippon should
be concentrated on right now and
right at home. Its current cam
paign is so spread out ard so far
off that it's almost a hopeless un-
dertaking TO deal with IL here and
there, in spots. The United Nations
probably could handle the job scat
teringly If they could join forces
against the Japs alone, but they're
so busy elsewhere that they can I
do il.
China's geography and man
power are o. X, but the Chinese
aren't fixed to fight otherwise than
defensively and an offensive Is what
the Jap situation calls for.
A Korean rebellion against Jap
rule IS beginning TO simmer and
that will be gratifying, too, II it
develops, but it can't hit the island
ers right where they live, and that
is what's required, to dispose Of
them 100 percen
How manage it? Why, do It by
plane from Alaska. That is the
argument. It's the merest hop from
the Aleutians TO the Mikado's
realm. A stable feet Of bombers
PROFESSIONALLY could criss cross
that archipelago from side to side
and from end TO end. Its architec-
ture is almost wholly lath, plaster
and wall paper. A good bombing
wouldn't leave II in so much as
ruins; II would leave It a. nothing
at all
Oh, yes, Il would be a barbarous
attack or q civilian population, but
does anybody suppose that II would
not have q demoralizing effect up
on laps in Burma, Malaga, the
Philippines and the Dutch East In
dies TO know that everything above
ground in their home land had gone
up IN smoke?
Comrade Stains recent utter
ances anent the Germans are as
sessed as ar offensive of his own
peculiar sort-not against the Ger
mans but against Herr Hitler as
their leader
New Viewpoint
The Russians, said Josef, have
nothing against Germans. They're
against Adolf exclusively. Joe has
not talked like this u~-'l very late
ly. He's been broadly Herman.
It's surmised that mis- agents
have told him Of considerable dis.
satisfaction with their Fuehrer
among Germans generally and that
he was making a covert appeal to
them t. chuck him overheard,
which indlsputably would play
hades with the Axis chain.
Nevertheless, l don't hear many
expressions Of agreement with his
proposition that he likes Germans,
for themselves alone.
The reaction I get Is to the pur-
port that the Germans wouldn't
have fallen for Herr Hitler at all
II they were even emi-civilized.
Still. If Joe's remarks we're intend
ed simply to split them internally,
its conceded that his strategy Is
sound.
Anyhow, the demand Is for
United Nations onensive-this
month, or next.