The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-24

especially in the United States immediately after the
 Crimea Conference the White House announcement regarding President Roosevelts movement makes two
 things plain. The first is that the against Japan
 and any Russian participation in it discussed at that conference anywhere Russian soil, not between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill alone, because Russia is still neutral Power in that The second is that in a special conference between MT Roosevelt and MT. Churchill held at Alexandria the British Prime Minister renewed fin blunt words" his previous assurances that "his Government was determined to throw everything it had at the Japs as soon as Germany has been de- feated and meanwhile, would do all it could to strengthen its forces already engaged in that conflict
 This is diplomatic document which establishes the rigid correctness of Russia neutral Power in the in Asia, whose hands are legally tied by the RussoJapanese neutrality pact in discussions with her allies in the in Europe But the decisive tense in this document is held strictly to the present. and there is nothing in it to suggest much less to bind, Russias course in the future. That course may become evident before the United Nations conference meets in San Francisco April 25 For that conference will assemble not only the allies in the European but also the allies in the Pacific including China to create international organization to enforce peace against all aggressors, and Russian pronounce mentS have already marked Japan beng much an aggressor as Germany. Furthermore, the confer ence will assemble just day after the last date on which Russia denounce her neutrality pact with Japan, to end year later, failing which the pact would continue for another five years till 1851 The action that Russia takes fails to take before that conference will go far therefore to reveal her immediate intentions. Sooner later, believe Russia is bound to enter the Asiatc war, if only to safeguard her interests, The timing of that entry may become as important as the entry itself.
 Meanwhile the renewed assurances of MT. Chur- chill are welcome for whatever effect they may have on American Angiophobes, though they scarcely MT Churchill has already announced that he does not propose to liquidate the British Empire and the British Empire is fighting for its existence in the Pacific no less than in Europe As result of Germanys inevitable defeat Great Britain will sur vve but the British Empire could not survive if British Empire forces should prove negligent in defending it.
 In point of fact, though in less spectacular fashion than the American sweep across the Pacific to Manila and Corregidor and Two Jma, British En- pire forces have already played important role in the Pacific They stopped the Japanese at the border of India they provided the main force for the of Burma and the opening of the Stilwel Road as China's lifeline; they contributed to Americas advance than is generally realized in this country. And despite all the spectacular and gratifying victories the Japanese Navy, over the Japanese air force, and Japanese Army units in the Pacific islands, it will still take all the power that America and the British Empire and China can bring to bear at such vast distances to beat Japan herself to her knees
 For while American naval and air power already dominates the waters and the skies of the Pacific areas and herewith the approaches to China and to Japan herself, the main might of the Japanese Empire represented by her army has scarcely been touched so far In respect to that force we are still where the Allies were in respect to Germany before Hitler attacked Russia for the transportation problem facing the Allies makes up for Japans weakness when compared with Germany. And the Japanese resistance on Two is symbol of the struggle shall face when we meet the Japanese main forces in China and es- pecialY in the JapaneSe homeland.