The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-06
JapS Must Move
Soon if They Hope
to Take Siberia
BY Charles P. Stewart
Central Press ColumnisD


Japan is suspected OF a plan
10 grab all OF Siberia from Rus.
sis. It's a suspicion based, not
on definite news, but on rumor
and conclusions. Nevertheless.
there appears TO be considerable
basis for II. The possibility has
Washington diplomacy and mill.
tary experts guessing.
One consideration is that the
Nazis must be exceedingly anxi.
Gus 10 see the Soyiets formida-
bly, engaged on their eastern
frontier. Nobody imagines that
Tokyo will have the inclination
TO obljge them, for. their own
Teutonic benefit However, II is
convenient moment for Nippon
10 undertake to gobble. territory
that It wants to gobble, anyway.
BY stirring up the eastern
Asiatlc rumpus, the assumption
is that the Japs hope TO keep
the United States from concen.
trating on them prematurely,
from their standpoint Action is
their objective, before we have
time 10 get busy in their direc-
ton.
II is reported that Tokyo has
been making very liberal offers
10 Chinese Generalisslmo Chang
Kai-Shek.
1t would like the support OF
his manpower against Russia, but
all il specifically asks for is his
sympathetic attitude-in Japan's
favor: not necessarily in favor OF
the whole Axis.
! would say that Chiang's good
faith toward the United Nations
was pretty well guaranteed by
his previous policy. Still, the
Japs have their own reckonings
in such matters. And they know
that. he has complained OF ne.
glect by the United States in
particular and the rest of the
United Nations in general.
Additionally, Tokyo has pro.
posed independence 10 the Philip
pines.
The Jap aim is Asiatic solidar-
ity.
The Nips would like to scoop
in India
What the Jsps want is an eco
nomic union. rather than a mill
tary one.
Maybe the Chinese Chungking
government has been putting
burr under the United Nations
to spur them into Chinese-ism.
Chiang's loyalty is not ques-
ton.
Some OF Chiangs advisors and
generals, though, have got him
worried.
They are disposed 10 accept
the Jap concessions offered TO
them-not on a World War but
on an Asiatic basis.
That Casablanaca conference
did not register in China.
What we need is presidential
generalissimo confab in Chung.
king.
We do not seem TO have just
the right man TO do our Chung.
king comforting.
1t ought not TO be so difficult.
l have met lot Of Chinese
| have met plenty OF Japs also,
but the trouble with them is that
they are unreliable. The Chinese
are dependable.
over here on our two sides OF
the oceans, the totalitarians do
not throw much weight around.
The Japs, pretty numerous on the
Pacific side, have not registered
and do not seem 10
want to. The South American
Jap-Americans have just held a
IN Uruguay, 10 de-
clare themselves as pro-American
and anti-German. The pro-A1is
Japs are not numerous enough
10 call a convention.
The expatriated Germans, TO
be sure. remain more or less pro-
Germans.
The expatriated Japs 10 not.
They're locally assimilated.
But consider the Japs in Ha-
vail, They are in class some
thing like our Negroes in the
continental | United States. II
they have been here leng enough
they are assimilated. They stand
for il.
But have they stood for II long
enough 10 signify?
We are all okay. But diplo-
matically and socially and eco
nomically?
Within my recollection "Chinks"
and "Japs' belonged in the same
classification approximately, vary
ing somewhat with geography.
Now they are nationalities.
"Chinks Chinese. "Japs? -
you know thai.
Will the Chinese tie up with
the Japs?