Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
The ROAD
TO TOKYO
BY James R..
Young
A FINNISH diplomat, who

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in Japan. reached Eelsinki with
encouraging details OF distress
in Tokyo.
He confirms my opinion that
with Berlin severed from Tokyo
the deSpised Nazi in Japan may
become torture victims of the
Japs who resented their arro-
CANT manner in the honeymoon
days when Axis going was
smooth.
The japanese are peculiarly
lopsided in their mental regi-
mentation.
The military, their early
training being Prusslan, always
favored the Germans. even IN
World War |, but civilians we're
anti-German.
Farm peasants favored the
United States because their
S160000,000 annual income
from the silk worm came from
America.
Further reflectlng their in
consistency. government spon-
Sored anti-Semitic campaign
brought synthetic German
praise TO "our yellow Aryan
friends"
JUST recently the Tokyo
- Yokohama chapter of the
Nazi party celebrated Hitler's
leadership of Nazidom hailed by
the Nippon Times for "the great
progress the German nation has
made in the years since Hitler
became chancellor"
Notwithstanding occ a sional
festive platitudes. the Nazis re-
peatedly disregarded protocol.
They ignored Japanese oues-
tioning of Hitler's uncompli-
~mentary "Mein kampf" re-
marks.
The -Nazi embassy operated
short-wave radios and published
local propaganda news service.
Embassy staffs. so 10 100 each
in Berlin and Tokyo, were step
ping on each other.
Haughtily. each considered
the other inferior, and at drink
ing parties the forced. stiff
diplomatic front cracked when
the elbow bending Nazis in
geisha houses told the Japs
your navy is third rate"
Foreign office officials grum-
bled At German demands for
special and impossible allow
ances OF food. tobacco and gaso-
line.
Endless diplomatic chickering's
developed.
TNHE normal German popula-
l. lation in Japan was 1,20O
mostly located at Kobe.
Several thousand others ar
rived from South America. Ma
Mia, the Dutch East Indies,
Singapore and India when war
started.
Most Of the men entered Ger
man military service.
About 1000 remain in Japan
today. over half of them wives
and children. who must be in a
panic of fear at the future in
the hands of their Japanese
friends and in despair of re-
turning to beaten and crushed
homeland.
Until the Normandy invasion
and the Russian drive. their
clubs. schools and "kultur" So
cieties flourished under the
swastika.
THE Nazis throug their
Il Reichsverband der Deuts-
chen Luftfahrt Industrie (Asso-
citation of the German Aeronau-
tical Industry were planning a
Zeppelin and commercial airline
route from Berlin and Hamburg
to Moscow, Tokyo, Shanghai,
Manila and points in India.
It's members sold Junkers
plane engines and Dornier flying
boats while the German Cham
ber Of Commerce (Deutsche
Handelskammer) at K b q,
Osaka and Tokyo arranged in
voices covering millions of dol
lars in optical glass for peri
scopes and searchlights, tons Of
submarine cables. carbon black
for tire manufacturing. steel
from Dusseldorf. typewriters,
pills and uuack remedies, tele-
phone apparatus. and hops for
the beer breweries which were
originally German built and
managed.
The Nazis in Japan knew that
the alliance was made by and
for opportunists. and today in
the midst of an emergency con-
fused and emotionally unstable
people, l am sure that sword
welding professional Black
Dragon gangsters will storm the
German embassy 10 kill what
one Japanese described as our
friendly enemy"