Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
They Could Rule
World With It's
Many Weapons
But Oriental Foe Can't
Look Upon This City
and Live. He Declares


There's a Shangri-La which the
war lords of Japan and Germany
would like 10 conquer, for in 1t are
the weapons with which they could
conquer the world. But this great
city is closed TO them-they cannot
look upon il and live. That Shangri-
La is Detroit.
So declared Joseph c. Grew,
former ambassador to Japan. in an
address TO 5 200 persons in Masonic
Temple last night, the final event
in a busy day spent meeting the
war workers, the military and
civic leaders of Detroit and in
speeding the great industrial Sec
tions busy turning out supplies
with which to win the war.
MENACE OF JAPAN
Then he swung from the great
metropolis of the lakes and talked
long and earnestly of the Land OF
the Rising Sun, its ambitions and
its successes, its menace TO Amer
lea and Americans. He said:
Even before Pearl Harbor
Japan was strong and possessed
a military machine OF great
power. That military machine
had been steadily strengthened
and developed during many
years, especially since Japan's
Invasion of Manchuria, In 1881"
Then the man who represented
the United States in Toxic for III
years carried his audience through
the years since Manchuria. the at
tack upon Shanghai and through
North China-the China Incl
dent" which later the japanese
changed to the China Affair" lie
continued:
During all those years Of I'M
availing effort to conquer China,
the japanese forces were using
China as a training ground In
preparation for the greater war,
already planned. for their con-
quest of the Pacific.
EXPANDING WAR MACHINE
During all this time the
Japanese military machine was
expanding. The Jealous disputes,
endless red tape and face-saving
expedients which characterized
the civil life Of Japan I'm times
OF peace wholly disappeared In
the war; the various branches
OF their armed forces cooper
ated in well night perfect CO.
ordination.
"No word Of criticism OF the
government was tolerated. In
war Japan is a unit, thinks and
acts as n unit, labors and fights
rs n unit.
according 10 their plans II
might be one year or 10 wears
before the japanese military
nOuIu ittIh
TO undertake an all-out attack
on this Western Hemisphere Of
ours. They themselves have
\ spoken of a 100-year war.
CONSOLIDATING GAINS
But one fact is certain: II we
should allow the japanese to dig
In permanently In the far-flung
areas now occupied, II we should
allow them TO consolidate and to
crystalline their ill-gotten gains,
" we should allow them To for
tify those gains In the nth de-
gree, rs they assuredly will at
tempt TO do, II would be only a
question of time before they
attempted the conquest of Amer
lean territory nearer home.
what worries me IL the fact
that many OF my countrymen
still believe the japanese a race
OF little men, good copyists but
poor inventors, are incapable OF
developing such power az could
ever seriously threaten our
home shores"
OF Japanese cruelty the states
man said:
II have seen with my own
eyes I'm some cases, and have
had first-hand vivid personal ac-
counts of many cases OF horrible
fortunes inflicted upon some of
our fellow citizens by the Jap
anese military police.
BARES JAP CRUELTIES
'In Toxic I received first hand
stories of the rape of Marking,
and watched through the years
the purposeless bombings of
American missions"
Before his address Grew told re-
porters he was inspired by what
he had seen in Detroit.
Concerning Pearl Harbor. he
said the government was mot
asleep at the switch" as to Jap
anese preparations for making
war upon America.
IL