Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-29

religious conviction that Japan
cannot be tackled until Ger
many II beaten that
Japan cannot win without Ger
many, and that japan can most
easily he smashed by the de-
feat at sea alone.
"It amounts 10 virtual heresy,
I suppose, to suggest that an
Asiatic front operating concur
EentIy- with-a- second frent- In
Europe II not only a practical
possibility but an impressive
necessity"
Snow points out that the
1iding principle in planning
trategy is the assumption that
ne enemy has an intelligence at
east equal 10 ones own, and
lids:
Unfortunately In dealing
with japan, this principle has
not been applied by either our
selves or Britain. This neglect
explains much of our misfOr-
tune In Asia and the Pacific.
STILL IGNORE 1T
"And with our eyes still fas-
tened on Europe, to the virtual
exclusion of Asia, we continue
to ignore IL today.
"A corollary mistake Is that
we have invariably estimated
Japan's power In static rather
than dynamic terms that
Is, by what she Is today, or,
more often than not, by what
we believed she was yesterday,
rather than by what she could
be tomorrow.
THAT Is why even now We
have no real continental STRAIT
egy operating against her. We
have naval strategy but no land
strategy. We have a Pacific
front, but no Asiatic front.
Tn our planning we have
failed to recognize In any real
istic way the truth that, from
1891 on, Japan ceased to be
purely an island power, lacking
In self-sufficiency and vulnerable
to blockade by sea, and began to
emerge rs the strongest power
I'm r Eastern and Southeastern
Asia.
SECOND LARGEST EMPIRE
"If we don't soon begin to con-
tend with her on land, we may
be unable to destroy her when
the time-cOmes except
through ss-yet undreamed-Of
costs in blood and material"
Snow warns that Japan has be-
come the second largest empire in
the world, dominating an area a
little larger than the'United States
without its dependencies, and
by bout 100000, 00C
people. If Japan could conquer
India, he continues, she would rule
more than half the men and
women on. earth.
Further, he writes:
"In q campaign lasting a few
weeks the Nipponese took from
the British and Dutch areas
which held 80 per cent of the
worlds rubber production, 60
per cent of the tin and a greater
oil production than the NaZis
have seized In all Europe.
WHAT WE LOST
"As Donald Nelson must often
be reminded these days, we our
selves lost the source of go per
cent of our tin imports, nearly
100 per cent of our rubber, 20
per cent of our tungsten, 80 per
cent of our chromium, 100 per
cent of our quinine, and access
to important quantities of oil
and silk from the subcontinent
of East Asia.
"But along with raw materials
In many respects better than
ours and ample for a protracted
war, Japan also won vital stra-
tegic assets.
"Not the least among them
are broadened political oppor-
tunities. She has also got i'm
proved security from attack on
her vital interests. Until the
war Is decided In Europe, her
home islands are In little dan
ger of large-scale invasion.
"She has won more time
she has already enjoyed nearly
n year I'm which to increase
war production.
"She has won time In which
to exploit her colonial terri
tories and weld them to her
island and continental chains of
defenses and communications"
QUOTES JOSEPH GREW
In estimation of our Japanese
'nemy, he quotes Joseph Grew,
'ur ambassador to Japan. who
lpon returning 10 the United
states said:
"We're up against a powerful
fighting machine and a people
whose morale cannot and will
not he broken even by our sue
cesses. and who can be brought
to earth only through complete
defeat in battle"
Snow says that every observer
Who has watched the japanese
Irmy at work must agree with
Crews estimate.
japan. the author points out,
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