The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-06-16

Japanese Attack
on Siberia Seen
by Strategists
BY Charles p. Stewart

are expecting the laps 10 strike
next into Russian continental Asia
Siberia. Probably Germany is eX-
pecting the same thing. The Chi
nese certainly are hoping so. 1t will
be a good thing for the Americans
and British likewise.
Why Japan has been so slow
about IL is obvious enough
The Japs evidently though they
could walk over China in pretty
short order and considered it eX.
pedient 10 dispose OF Generalissimo
Chang Kai-Shek before taking on
any additional contracts. The main.
land Orientals, though, surely have
put up a SITTER and more prolonged
fight than the islanders had antici-
pated. While that war was raging,
all Of today's complications devel-
oped. At present they have reached
proportions against which Nippon
cannot keep its eyes shut.
There are quite a few odds in
Tokyo's favor
These Chinese have manpowe-
and nerve but little equipment. Su-
perior Jap firearms and aviation
more than offset the mainlanders'
numbers and courage.
Russia is desperately occupied
with Germany.
In a two-country fight the Soviets
ought 10 be able to lick the island
empire. True. the Muscovites tried
win. They did not lack plenty OF
good scrappers, but they WERE
shy then as 10 equipment and or
ganization, The outcome was
Russian victory, rs a matter OF fact
but. as per the empire, the Japs
got the decision.
1t would be fatal 10 the Japs 10
have the verdict reversed in the
current instance.
Now's the moment for them TO
hop on the Moscow folk while the
latter are absorbed in Europe
The United States and Demo
cratic Europe are in the soup, Asia
tically speaking, because OF their
respective Biographies. Aereona-
graphy is what the western world
has TO figure on. on our oppose
side OF the Pacific
As the war winds up
The Axis will be licked European
". But may not it be 4 break Tor
Japan?
Then what?
viii China be in a state ~ per-
manent surrender 10 the Japs'
II so. the Mikado will be the
Orient's boss in perpetuity, or else
tn conflict will continue forever
sfterward
No? It won't be that way? China
will 90 on fighting into eternity?
II the answers are in the affirm
ltive. the Eastern war will last in
lerminably.
Oh. Japan will be licked finally,
but it may take a generation.
Believe me. | know those Japs,
I've lived among them. They CAN
be civilized.
Their ordinary folk can be as
civilized as anyone II is their mill
taly class that has TO be classified
separately. And it is SMALL
class, numerically. The Jap Sam
urai' and the German "Junkers'
are similar
There are nice Germans. We
know that. II you know the Japs,
you will find that they have got a
decent element, too.
was acquainted with Jap news
papermen when | lived among them.
They agreed, 10 those days, that
the militarists are cannibals. That
Is what they said. among them
selves. It is what they told NE.
OF course, they can't afford to
say so now.
II is somewhat similar TO the Ital.
ian situation.
Signor Mussolini's government u
despicsbly pro-Axis, but not The
bulk OF the Italian people There
are respectable Jsps, too. This
does not mean that they haven't
60. 10 be fought They do not have
TO be hated, though, also. Not per
sonally.,
Hated?-the goyernment-yes
individuals? | have my doubts.
The Mikado2 | am skeptical that
the Mikado has any more 10 say as
10 Japan than | have. He is Just
locally bossed around. And by
small group, too.