Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
u. S. Must Heed Plea
OF Madame Chang

MADAME CHANG KAISHEK, talented and charm
wi ing wife of the great generassimo of China has
impressed upon the American people-not for the first
time surely but eectiVelythe grim reality of our
war with Japan.
If this brave and accomplished woman can arouse
understanding Of the detectives and power OF
Japan will have served her country and our land
as well
The manner which she has set herself to that task
attests her vision and wisdom.
With bluntness born of the devastation by the
Japanese she has in China and of the potential
catastrophe she forcsees in America, Madame Chang
decred policy pursued by the United States thus far
in the with Japan.
TT Is policy, as she said, of regarding the
of Japan of less concern than the menace of our
other enemies
This" she warned 's not borne out by actual facts,
nor to the interests of the United Nations whole
TO allow Japan to continue not only as vital potential
threat but as a waiting sword of Damoces, ready to
descend a moments notice
Let us forget that Japan in her occupied
today has greater at her command than Ger
many.
LET us not forget that the longer Japan is left in
unsputed possession of these the stronger
she must become Each passing day takes toll in
lives of both Americans and Chinese
japanese military might must be decimated
fighting force before its threat to civilization is removed
n HADAME CHIANG'S mission to the United States
wi is frankly and properly and primarily in behalf of
China.
AS she says, China for than four years bore
the sadistc fury of the Japanese alone and virtually
unaided
But now China is not alone in feeling the sadstc
fury of the Japanese America felt it at Pearl Harbor
in the Philippines at Guam and Wake.
Thus, while Americans always had sympathy for
China have the same enemy, and face the same
and peril
But still China is practically unaided by
This is due in part of course to the difficulties and
hazards of rendering adequate assistance to China
But all the operations of this difficult and
hazardous
THE great expedition sent to North Africa
i extreme difficulties and hazards.
The substantial assistance have given Russia,
the convoy routes to Murmansk was not merely
difficult and hazardous but enormously costly.
The bulwark of troops and weapons and food have
raised for the protection and undoubtedly the salvation
of England has had its obstacles and its heavy price.
Why is only China left to its own devices because of
difficulties and hazards?
Why, particularly, is this American policy, when
the abandonment of China and the possible subugation
of China by Japan and the elimination of the Chinese from
the would proong with Japan indefinitely
and multiply its costs in American and lives
and concevably prevent ultimate victory the
japanese?
THE American war policy desperately needs to be
i revised
The American people desperately need to be aroused
not simply to the plight of China but to the imminent and
dire peril of our own menaced homeland.
1t is to be hoped Madame Chang will accomplish her
mission.
1t is only incidentally mission in behalf of China,
from our American viewpoint
1t is mission in behalf of what America has already
lost to the Japanese and of the priceless heritage still
stand to lose TO the Japanese.
PRIVATE BUCK :. BY Clyde Lewis