The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-31
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JAPANESE DIPLOMACY
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II diplomacy is the art Of de-
ceit as the Machiavellians teach,
then the japanese have indeed
proved themselves to be master
diplomats. Theirs was the kind
of diplomacy which Hitler also
used with such startling success
before and even after the out
break of the war. Its principles
are simple. They can be sum-
married. as follows:
/. State your aims frankly
and boldly, but In terms Of
world-embracing i'd e logy
which other nations will dismiss
Is fantastic but which will in.
spire your people to follow you
through thick and thin, irrespec-
tive of the eviations necessitat-
ed by practical day-to-day poll
tics.
2. Until all preparations have
been made and the right oppor-
tunity for striking has arrived,
lie low, speak softly, cultivate
foreign diplomats and visitors,
make fair promises all around,
sign any treaties that will dispel
suspicious, proclaim yourself
the champion Of peace, progress
and prosperity.
8. Divide your possible oppo-
nents by playing them OFT
against one another.
4. Strike hard and fast when
the moment seems ripe, and let
your aims justify your means.
It is such q political system
which distinguishes the Hitlers
and the japanese war lords
from ordinary gangsters. And 1t
Is this system which makes the
ruling theology of . nation even
more important than its official
professions and even acts.
The ruling theology OF Ger
many under Hitler was Nation
NJ Socialism, which seized upon
the two most vital forces OF the
decentralization and socialism,
and by converting the first into
4 monstrous racialism, and the
second into a man-eating state
ism, produced an explosive en-
ergy that found its unifying con-
cept in the German master
race" The ruling theology of ia
pan for ages eternal" has been
Shinto, which unifies racialism
and state-ism into the equally
explosive concept Of the divine
family state of superior race
of gods ruled by a supreme God
Emperor who has a divine COM
mand to be the Emperor of the
world.
Yet, though She real nature
of National Socialism was fairly
we'll understood long before the
war, Hitler had little difficulty
in fooling the statesmen of the
world by maintaining a front of
gentlemen" in his Foreign o.
flee and his diplomatic service
who gave an air of verisimili-
tude of his own fair promises.
The Japanese had an even easier
task of it; for Shinto is still
primarily a subject of study by
world-removed experts in COM
parative religion rather than the
concern of statesmen. japanese
gentlemen" can be more in
gratiating than the Germans.
But the Japanese Foreign Office
was never more than 4 geisha
girl, whose function was to give
q song and dance to keep other
nations occupied, amused and
divided, while the military got
ready for the big strike. The
japanese gentlemen" played
their parts well, until the bombs
began to fall on FearI narOor.
THE divine mission Of Japan
puts her above treaty breaking
because what would be wrong in
the rest of the world 10 right In
Japan. For Japan, any means
iustifies the end Maj Gen.
Tada, quoted In "War and d.
plomacy In Eastern Asia, oy
Claude Buss, New York, 194l.
PARDONABLE DECEIT
Deceit may be pardoned In
proportion to the benefits 1t con-
fers."-Yukis Azaki, an ex-Min-
lister Of State.
"What Japan has now to do !.
to keep perfectly quiet, to lull
the suspicious that have risen
against her, and to wait, mean.
while strengthening the founda'
tons Of her national power
watching, waiting for the oppor'
tunity which must one day sure
" come in the Orient. "-Todasu