Evening star., 1942-02-08

Japan has its own Mein Kampf, q
document drawn up nearly Is years ago
laying out the line OF conquest leading
TO overlordship Of the world for JapanS
Emperor.
This is the Tanaka Memorial, a men,
orandum prepared by Baron Tanaka
for Emperor Hirohito following q con-
ference at Mukden. In Manchuria, OF
Japanese militarists and industrial
leaders. At the conference practical
steps for plan Of conquest were agreed
upon. AS with Hitler's sinister auto
biography, peace-loving peoples ignored
the import of the Tanaka Memorial.
Americans, British and many Chinese
preferred not to believe that the jap
anese meant what they said, just as
Hitler's fantastic plans were put down
as the rawlings Of an ego-n1aniac. The
japanese denied the authenticity of the
document, which was made public sew
eral months after the conference at
Mukden through Chinese sources. But
scholars believe 1t is authentic. The
Tanaka Memorial has just been re-
issued by Harper g. Brothers in spe-
cial edition with an introduction by Carl
Crow, former Missourian and long
time resident of the Orient.
There is no doubt" says Mr. Grow on
the question of authenticity, that the
conference was held in Manchuria at
the time stated and that its purpose
was to draw up a program of policy for
Japan to follow in China, especially In
Manchuria and Mongolia. 1t would have
been most extraordinary thing for con-
ference of that sort to be held without
embodying the results in a report Of
some sort, and, as he was the Premier
of the country, it was the duty OF Baron
Tanaka to present this report to the
Emperor. The fact that the conference
was participated in by such a large
number of officials, many Of whom had
Chinese servants and clerks, made the
task Of espionage comparatively easy
and 1t Is not at all improbable that
copy of the report fell into Chinese
hands"
Already Fulfilled in Part.
large part of the memorial deals
with the steps to be taken for the
economic conquest of Manchuria and
Mongolia AS Mr.. Grow points out, the
japanese have since that time followed
more or less closely the pattern that
Baron Tanaka laid down, which is an
other indication of the documents au-
thenticity.
While most Of the secret memorial is
taken up with plans for Manchuria and
Mongolia, it states specifically that war
between the United States and Japan is
inevitable. Necessary first, Tanaka points
out, is q policy OF Blood and Iron" in
Manchuria and Eastern Asia.
"But IN carrying out this policy" the
Premier wrote to his Emperor. I'VE have
to face the United States, which has been
turned against us by Chinas policy Of
fighting poison with poison. In the
future if we want to control China, we
must first crush the United States just
as in the past we had to fight in the
Russo-Japanese War. But. in order to
conquer China, we must first conquer
Manchuria and Mongolia.
"In order to conquer the world we must
first conquer China. If we succeed in
conquering China the rest of the Asiatic
countries and the South Sea countries
will fear us and surrender to us. Then
the world will realize that Eastern Asia
Is ours and will not dare to violate our
rights. This Is the plan left to us by
Emperor Meiji (the Emperor who
brought Japan out of its isolation in q
reign lasting from 1868 to 1912, the
success of which is essential to our ma
tional existence"
Raw Materials First Goal.
The memorial described the economic
and military infiltration of Manchuria
which should proceed actual attack on
this province of China. The objective
was to build far-flung raw materials
base in Mongolia and Manchuria and
under the pretense of trade and COM
merce penetrate the rest of China"
At the time of the conference in 1927,
the South Manchuria Railway had been
developed to a high degree as force for
economic penetration. The railway COM
pany controlled many related trade ac-
tivities. But Baron Tanaka complained
that different type of management