The Wilmington morning star., 1945-09-02
interpreting
The War y
BY JAMES D. WHITE
Associated Press St,fs W..

aolile are emerging from japan,
''co-prosperity sphere Of ar paas
east ASIA with little mor s'e +.s'
their pinfeathers left. Nons 'a S,n
forget the experiences Of Ne WIN WIN
years in a japanese coon. p'S'
But none is forgetting oi.,.
that it is re-entering its torr nsl,
coop. ''''lef
1t is pretty well recognized ~.
few of these colonial chickens AVG. as
yet ready to run free. altbn'- s
you can raise an argument .bo sa
that very easily.
Ersatz Freedom
But Japan offered most NJ +b,..
an ersatz freedom during the tim.
they were in her imperial gnnn, '
sack and did great del :.
talking about it and what Ibers'
ton from the white man W.,
going to mean.
And with the grapes of allied
wrath soured in their mouth, Sors
of Japan's departing conoueror,
have got in some nice lcks wbics
will not lessen the confusion in n,
colonies and other Dependence,
they are leaving.
In French Indo-China, the linda
pendent state of WET NAM ha
been set up in the state of Amman
under an emperor named Ban
Dai. The French, trying to get
their troops back into the country
quickly, are watching Chinese and
British troops each occupy hall
the country, both declaring thew
will give way to French authority
later.
France has given up her claim
to the Kwangchowan peninsula in
South emma, presumably after
negotiation with the Chinese.
In the Netherlands East Indies
another Japanese-sponsored in.
dependence move is afoot. This X
not new, but after starting it when
they conquered the Indies in 1912
the japanese kept it we'll squech.
ed. Now it blossoms just as the
Dutch are about to move back in.
Of all the colonial possessions
in the east, the Indies often are
credited with having been the
most literally administered. Mean.
while the Netherlands government
has promised additional autonomy
ON an empire basis-for the fl.
ture.
No Fuss In Burma
The British have moved back
into Burma with no fuss reported,
and probably will encounter the
same reception in Malaga.
At Hong Kong, the sovereignty
of China is not legally involved,
because it became a British crown
colony dike Gibraltar) by treaty
more than 100 years ago. But in
the minds of some Chinese, Hong
Kong means something like Brit.
ish possession of Manhattan Is
land would mean to the United
States.
So Chinese Prime Minister T. v
Soong is on his way to London
for negotiations, probably concern
ing Hongkong although that has
not been specified publicly.
Meanwhile China is getting back
Formosa, former Chinese posses
sion which Japan has done every
thing possible to japanese IN the
past so years.
Korea, a former Chinese vasSaI
has been a japanese DOMAIN Jul
40 years. It's intellectual class ap'
parently has been killed off to an
undetermined extent, and 1t IS
about to be OCCUPIED now, half by
Russia and half by American
troops. The Cairo declaration
promises Korea full in dependence
Gin due course"
China, in her recent pact "im
Russia, gave up her legal Clam Ill
to outer Mongolia in return III y,
a Russian promise to stay out u
China's internal affairs, which are
considered to include what goes OIL
in the Chinese civil admlnlstrau0a
to Manchuria, Tibet and olnKla IL,
America claims no colonies, W.
our forces remain in the PhlAp
pines and have been pronlSe,
bases there. The American pieas'
of full independence to the PllNi :s
pines is colored by American 'el a
laws and the fact that the lslana
still are tied to us by their 'sosa.
economy dependent upon our MAJ d,
kets, and by their need fof ns4
in rebuilding the damage OF wa,
Soviet Russia enters the co lonl'
picture with the likely asqulsl' ~.
of some of the Kurile ISLANDS a.,
the southern half of Sakhalln' WIN
have japanese populations ..n.
In the past, the Soviet fecn l1!.4ss
has been to give such outlyl III
areas autonomy associated WIN VII.
the Soviet Union itself. If %'
policy attracts some elei,is s.s;
among the poverty-ridden rlas s =,
of Asia, it also repels members W. y,
the weather. classes of the SAM
areas because communism u Nh
cialism usually appear unoe'i'e' ''
to them. ,,s
Whatever coop the Chinese CON- Il.
home to roost in-British, tfe nus.
Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese ,; h
sian or American-there IS Nns M
o be an argument, in the sSl =,
over whether it's to be ca s,,' 4