Evening star., 1946-09-08
New Pearl Harbor' Held
More Likely to Be Internal
Danger of Organized Fifth Column Gripping
War Production Declared Greater Than
Threat of External Attack
By Constantine Breton

A group of congressman visiting our
Pacific defenses has issued warning to
the United States about the possibility
of another Pearl Harhor.
In responsible military quarters in
Europe, intelligence officers are on the
alert for possible strike message to
the Red armies massed in fighting for
nation from Stettin to the Mediter-
ranean in the same secret manner as the
winds message" which was Toyko's
signal for the attack on Pearl Harbor
However, those whose job it is to fol-
low the Russian trends believe that Mos
COW is counting today principally on the
fifth column" in the United States to
neutralize America, whose war potential
she knows is still great.
There is a parallel and a difference
between the situation in 1941 and in
1916. The parallel is that while the mill
tary in the United States expected
japanese aggression, We continued to re-
main disarmed.
The difference Is that the American
Government had considered Japan as a
potential enemy since the end of the
World War when, on orders from Presi-
dent Wilson, We prevented the Tokyo
war mongers from annexing Siberia
and parts of China, including Shantung
Today, in spite of its toughening- at
titude toward Moscows demands, the
United States still cannot believe that
the U. S. S. R, country helped in every
conceivable manner militarily and poll
tically, would repay our assistance by
unleashing another war, with this Ma
ton as one of the immediate targets.
Reds Could Score at Start.
Ethical considerations are the basis
for the hope of American diplomats and
politicians that Russia will not behave
in the same manner as the japanese
Hard boiled and realistic Air, Army and
Navy men still have some hopes for
peace because they cannot imagine that
Stain and those who assist him can be
so blind as not to realize that the in
evitable ultimate defeat of the u S. S. r.
could bring. about the collapse of their
regime.
There is no question that at this
time the Red Army is far better pre-
pared than the combined forces of the
western democracies. 1t is fully mobi-
lied and has for the time being an
overwhelming superiority over the Allied
forces in Europe and in Asia Although
the Red armies do not possess the
motorized equipment which the west
tern forces considered essential for VIC
tory against the Axis, their strength is
such that within few weeks they
could roll back the feeble American
British and French troops policing the
area west OF the Elbe and the Morgan
Line.
The Russians could hike it to the
Channel within a short time after
receiving the go-ahead signal from the
Kremlin. They could roll Gen. John r.
Hodges troops in Korea into the sea
in few days and could rout Chang
Kai-shek's forces and the Marines sta
toned in China soon after an offensive
was ordered.
But initial successes are of little con-
sequence. From September, 1899, to No.
vember, 1943, the Nazis were the un-
challenged masters of Europe; yet they
were defeated in the end
Underground Groups Strong.
Russia's initial victories-should Sta
lin be blinded by his diplomatic sue
cesses and decide on holy war against
the western democracies"-would be
only temporary in the opinion of the
best military minds in the United
States.
Russia has managed. by its police
state policies, to earn the enmity of all
the nations in which she has placed
satellite governments. There is an
underground which many reliable oh
servers consider more viruleut and
organized than that which existed dur
ing the Nazi regime in Poland Ro-