Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-07
The Growing Menace
OF Japan


THE granting Of independence" TO Burma by the
/ Japanese followed by Burmese declaration Of war
against the United States and Great Britain matters
TO be taken very seriously
II is true that Burma is puppet state, controlled by
the japanese at least for the and that her indie
pendence political by Japan and largely fiction
as it affects Burma,
Nevertheless it is not to be discounted that the Japa
nese conquest of Burma not wholly military but in
considerable degree ACCORDED WITH THE SENTI-
MENT OF THE PEOPLE OF BURMA.
And as the japanese propagandists are now able to
assert Burma is the FIFTH Asiatc country to be ncor
porated-whaever the process-into the Greater East
Asia co-prosperity sphere"
JAPAN itself is Of course the bellweher of the FIVE
with Thailand Manchukuo and Marking China as the
remaining members.
Moreover Japan is in position to set up the same
sort of an establishment whenever it suits hern Indo-
China, in Malaga and in Java and the Philippines
Let us not deude ourselves with the belief that these
controlled movements and puppet governments are
entirely ineffective and unco-operative
They represent definite and dangerous progress in
the unification of Asia for the support of Japan.
THE stronger Japan gets or even appears to be, the
l effective and cooperative the puppet move
ments and governments will be- and the helpless
and resigned their peoples will beand the more COM
pete and powerful will be the unfcation of Asia in
support of Japan
Obviously we cannot wait much longer in attacking
Japan her still vulnerable points and demonstrating to
her helpless neghbors that she be defeated unless
we wish to risk having all of Asia united with her.
A Ii. of the Asatic countries have been deeply inn
"A pressed by the power of Japan.
They have seen the Japanese overrun great part
of China.
They have seen them move almost unopposed across
Southern Asia to the borders of India
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posedly powerful British out Of their rich colony
of Hongkong and their great naval base at Singapore
They have seen the Americans crushed and humi-
ated in the Philippines
They have the Dutch swept out Of the East
Indies.
OF COURSE the Asiatics are impressed and being
~ increasingly persuaded to fall in lnef for better
than make the best of apparently inevitable
situation
1t must be remembered that most of the Asatic ma
tions Japan dominates, with the conspicuous eXcep
ton of China. really free.
- Of all of them, only the Philippines had promise
Of ultimate freedom that could be relied upon.
For the rest they only change of masters and
the apparent advantage and necessity of curng favor
with the most powerful.
OUR great task is to demonstrate that Japan is not
~ powerful she seems to be- and is not nvuner-
able to crushing attack and is incapable of assuring
security to herself or to her slaves.
We do not need to demonstrate that Japan is not
benevolent for she does that most convncngy her
account-as the long experience of Korea and the
experiences of all her occupied territories attest
We must ATTACK Japan.
We must reduce her miltarly, and devastate her
economically, and destroy her politically.
We must hit her hard and often, and over
whelmingly
All these vital things must do very soon
Otherwise, the Japanese "co-prosperity sphere in
Asia will not be pretense fiction, but will be grim
reality 1t is already omnous and menacng potent
atty.
While the Occidental exhausting their
powers and in nternecne warfare the Oriental
building thousand million people into united
Asia. 49,
PRIVATE BUCK =. By Clyde Lewis