Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-08-06
The Growing Menace
OF Japan

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THE granting Of independence to Burma by the
l japanese followed by Burmese declaration of war
against the United States and Great Britain matters
10 be taken very seriously
L is true that Burma Is puppet state controlled by
the japanese least for the moment and that her indie
pendence is political by Japan and largely fiction
as it affects Burma.
Nevertheless it 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 the FIFTH Asiac country to be incor-
porated whatever the process-nto the Greater East
Asia co-prosperity sphere
JAPAN Itself is of the bellwether of the five,
with Thaiand, 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 her-n Indo-
China in Malaga, and even in Java and the Philippines
Let 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 unifcation of Asia for the support of Japan.
THE stronger Japan gets appears to be, the
L more effective and cooperative the puppet move
ments and governments will be, and the more helpless
and resigned their peoples will be-and the
pete and powerful will be the unifcation of Asia in
support of Japan.
Obviously we cannot wait much longer in attacking
Japan her still vulnerable points and demonstrating
her helpless neghbors that she be defeated unless
wish to risk having all of Asia united with her.
A IL of the Asatic countries have been deeply i'm
y pressed by the power Of Japan.
They have the Japanese overrun great part
of China.
They have seen them move almost unopposed across
Southern Asia to the borders of India.
They have them rout the feared and sup
posedly powerful British out of their rich colony
of Hongkong and their great naval base at Singapore
They have seen the Americans crushed and humil
ated in the Philippines
They have seen the Dutch swept out of the East
Indies
OF COURSE, the Asiatics impressed and are being
~ increasingly persuaded to fall in lneif for better
than to make the best of apparently inevitable
situation.
1t must be remembered that most of the Asiatc ma
tons Japan dominates with the conspicuous excep-
ton of China, really free
Of all Of them only the Philippines had a promise
of ultimate freedom that could be relied upon.
For the rest, they only change of masters and
the apparent advantage and necessity Of curryng favor
with the most powerful
OUR great task is to demonstrate that Japan is not
~ powerful she to be, and is not invulner-
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 convincngly her
accounts the long experience of Korea and the
experiences of all her occupied territories
We must ATTACK Japan.
We must reduce her militarily, and devastate her
economically and destroy her politically
We must hit her hard, and often and over
whelmingly
All these vital things we must do very soon
Otherwise, the Japanese "co-prosperity sphere in
Asia will not be pretense fiction but will be grim
reality 1t already ominous and menacing potent
atty
While the Occidental races are exhaustng their
powers and in nternecne warfare the Oriental
are building thousand million people into united
Asia.
PRIVATE BUCK :. BY Clyde Lewis
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