Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-03
Japs' New Weapon


Half of these people live in India and Ceylon, coun-
tries which - unlike China and Japan do not grow
nearly enough rice to feed themselves
For centuries India and Ceyon have depended for
subsistence the rice paddles of Burma Thailand and
French Indo-Chna and all of those rich producing areas
are now occupied by Japanese troops.
CONSEQUENTLY, the Japanese are in sudden posi-
- ton to starvation weapon against the always
hungry hundreds of millions of Indians and Cngalese
During the long period of Indian history, famine
OF frequent occurrence
One of the UNREASONABLE benefits which the British
Raj conferred upon India along with unquesonabe ex-
poitaton in the past to midas basic food
supply by obtaining possession of Burma
Under these circumstances with Japan instead of
Great Britain in Burma encroaching the Sea of Bengal
It would seem midas patriots should be desperately
endeavoring reconcile differences with Great Britain
and to maintain this time all possible contacts with the
occidental countries
nut is not so with midas wise man"-Mohandas X
- Gandhi
Gandh demands that Great Britain evacuate India
and good deal more of the world besides-at once.
AS reported by the United Press in Bombay des-
patch Gandh believes that British withdrawal from
India essential for world safety and the destruction OF
nazism and fascism"
Gandh is further quoted saying in an article in his
newspaper Harlan:
II ask every Brton to support me in my appeal that
the British this very hour retire from every Asatc and
African possession and at least from India"
In the same article, Gandhi couples "Japansm' with
naxism and fascism, calling it good copy" of the
other "isms"
FRIENDS of India including all of those who wanted to
guarantees of liberty extended to India war
and who regretfu when Sir Stafford Grips
failed in his recent mission will have difficulty in fathom
ing the Gandhi mind
Gandh should know that japan, far from having
copied" Mussolini Hitler has its theology of
Asatic conquest considerably older than either of the
two European totalitaransms.
He should know that if Great Britain evacuated"
any part of the empire at this tme-whether in Asia, in
Africa in the antipodes-one other of the Axis
powers would Immediately move in
He should know that, if Germany and Italy
were both overwhelmed in Europe and Africa and
duced to military impotence Japan would still remain
towering world until she too had been overwhelm
mgly defeated.
WHY else does Gandh suppose American soldiers are
w in Australia and American bombing planes are in
China, and American warshps in the Far Pacific?
Most of ALL Gandhi should know that India, with its
vast population exposed to japanese tactics of star
walton and with its weak unorganized native defenses
would be "pushover' for Japan India not still
part of the British Empire.
In fact, Gandhi's demand for Immediate" British
withdrawal, if carried out, would be tantamount to
lrou IlseH loI Japan W dLio"
And Gandhi knows how bitterly Korea has Jared
m japanese province he would surely not desire
similar fate for his own people.
LII in all, it looks if Pundt Nehru is
"A predetermined guide than Gandh for midas
masses to follow
It il also evident that this country should beware OF
Candhism in Inda's exposed plight.
Gandhi has been much admired in this country
spiritual leader
But the need of the day is military leadership now, in
India elsewhere
Excessive admiration Of Gandhis ideaism, sincere
sympathy with his aspirations for national independence
befuddlement his politics of passive nonress
ence must not blind Americans to the fact that
selves face extreme peril in the threat of huge
japanese empire dominating Asia and It's hundreds of
millions of people and that this threat increases while
japan continues on the march-toward India.
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