The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-09

platitudes, the Nazis repeatedly
disregarded protocol. They ignor-
ed japanese questioning OF Hitler's
uncomplimentary Mein kampf re.
marks. The Nazi embassy operat-
ed short-w We radios and publish
ed a local propaganda news service.
Empassy STATS. so to 100 each in
Berlin and Tokyo. were stepping
on each other. Haughtily. each
considered the other inferior, and
at drinking parties the forced, stin
diplocatic front cracked when the
elbow bending Nazis In geisha
houses told the Japs your Navy is
third rate.
Foreign ONCE officials grumbled
al German demands for special and
impossible allowances OF food, to-
bacco and gasoline Endless dip.
lomatic chickering's developed. NaZi
propa gandists visited newspapers
10 criticize editorials and cartoons.
The German ambassador. Maj. Gen.
Eugen OFT, would appear in an
editors Office with a scrap book
OF everything the paper had car
ried which was unfayorable TO the
Axis. The Germans bribed edi-
torial writer's with money, books,
women. food and wines.
Japs don't like back.slapping,
hand shaking or heel clicking.
They felt themselves silly when
they bowed, Used and mumbled
Hell Hitler. Japanese protests
were unavailing against the rowdy
singing Of well-dressed German
sailors on whoopee parties In io-
kohama night spots, with giggl.ng
Madame Butterfly girls IN the Nos-
hiwara red light district. They
were on shore leave from blockade
runners which had brought optical
glass and pharmaceutieals. Four
ships were anchored every month
at Yokohama and Kobe loading
tires. SILK. tea and camphor, These
fast. armed merchantmen included
the Odenwald. Scharnhorst. Mum
sterland and other vessels OF the.
Rickers line, the Hamburg-Amerika
line and the Norddeutscher Lloyd.
The ships evacuated probably 1000
TO 5000 Nazis from Japan. Others
departed by submarine. The Japs,
too. used subs to carry diplomatic
stats TO Portugal and Spain. Ger
man and Italian planes landed at
the 1870 acre international airport
near Tokyo TO unload diplomatic
pouches and mysterious ENJOYS.
So long as the Axis partners
could celebrate military successes
there was no lack OF moral courage,
but in reverses. challenges were
heard and hurled. First economic
clash developed when the slap-hap-
by laps demapded that the Nazis
in Rotterdam turn over the assets
~. Netherlands. East Indies. ac-
colnts. especially gold. The SaEis
replied that the Japs shoNld hand
over the rich Dutch Islands.
The normal German population
in Japan was l,2G0 mostly located
at Kobe. Several thousand others
arrived from South America, Mani
la, the Dutch East Indies, Singa-
pore and India when war started.
Most OF the men entered German
military service. About 1000 re-
main in Japan today, over half OF
them wives and children, who must
be in a panic OF fear at the future
in the handr Of their japanese
friends, and in despair Of RETURN
ing 10 a beaten and crushed home
land. Until the Normandy invasion
and the Russian drive, their clubs,
schools and "Kultur" societies
fiourished under the swastika. The
Tokyo branch of the Deutsche &C.
sellschaft fur Natur ind Volker-
kunde Ostasiens originally was a
scientific group, but 1t became
Nazi spy and drinking club. Bitsu-
meikan University made German
compulsory language study. I'm
perial University with $4,000 stu
dents, boosted OF a NaZi library
with catalog titles emphasizing the
Joint divine mission toward econ
omic lebenstraum
After Japan made war on us, her
business men. while personally not
liking the Germans, turned to the
once great J. G. Farbenindustrie
which they called Doitsu Senryo for
dyestuffs. chemicals and sLlphate