Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1955 — Page 9

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Japan Faced With Important Decision Must Determine Future Direction TOKYO, tINS) America's ultimate fate in Asia hinges very largely today on vastly important Japan r- Yesterday's mortal enemy, Today’s uneasy friend, Tomorrow’s questionmark. The dynamic incredibly crowded immeasurably sensitive nation is at a crossroads. It cannot stand stifl. But where it is going is one of the great and puzzling questions in World affairs. The answer, when it comes finally and irrevocably, will be of tremendous importance to the United States. Indeed, the whole concept of American strategy in Asia depends on it. Will Jahan settle down, after three years of post-occupation turmoil and soul-searching, a» America’s partner in Asia just as Communist China is Russia’s partner? Or will Japan suddenly inexplicably break the economic ties that bind it to the United States and make a reckless bid for a new “Asia Co-Prospertiy Sphere" involving both mainland China' and the Soviet Union? May Be Neutral Or Is the eventual course somewhere in between — Japan as a bridge between Esat and West independent and tied to neither side? Men in high places wish they knew. Acting Assistant Secretary of State William J. Sebald former Ambassador to Japan takes a gloomy view. "The possibility exists.” he told a Congressional committee, "that Japan may at some stage be subverted and become either neutral or in fact join the Communist camp.” "If Japan joined the Communists,” he warned “the entire World balance between ourselves and the Communists would lie completely upset." What are the chances of Japan going Communist? While no one can surely predict at these crossroads, most facts and a current trend make it appear that Japan will tread a middle course — purely a Japan-first course — with peculiar Japanese overtones of independence in the face of utter economic dependence on all comers. Actually, while Japan could upj set the precarious balance of power in Asia, by shifting alignments

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it could nat make the shift easily. For one thing Japan is so ire trinsically conservative that a Communist Japan is most difficult to imangine, and for another, it is hard to conceive Japan teaming up with ißussia. an implicahle traditional enemy, Political Deal Unlikely A high degree of political cooperation with Communist China, while conceivable, is highly unlikely so long as it means alienating the United States. Ror now, there would be too much to lose. Nevertheless? some custodians of power in Japan believe the nation eould be part of a Communist bloc •without going Communist . itself. Their dream: To dominate China and through China make good its forteiited claim to supremacy of all Asia. Japan today is rolling along a course that is compounded of Nationalism. mild Neutralism and with the overriding considerations of her economic plight — and how to solve it — will in the end determine Japan’s course. One assurance that Japan probably will reman inclined to the Western Powers is, simply put, that Japan has not been able too find away to stay alive without the United States. An almost psyeotic fascination for trade and "nodinalized” relations with the China mainland exists, but hard-headed economists know if Japan cannot exist on ‘•■Weslevn markets alone they

would be doomed without them. It could be a quite different story of course —■ and a deatn blow to the U.S. in Japan and all the Orient — if Communist China were able to override ail Southeast Asia and control that vast trading area. Difficult Choice In that situation Ju|Kin would either become a full ward of America or lie forced to cut off its ties with the West and go as a "neutral’’ in search of necessary good relations with Peiping. With that development, America's military concept on “Pacific island base" defense would go down the drain. Japan, to Asia what the Ruhr is to lEurope would sell its finished steel and locomotives to Communist China for the rice and unfinished goods that Southeast Asia would furnish under Communist auspices. These are just some of the possibilities. What is the situation in Japan now? Japan no longer Is "Dal Nappon,” for greater Japan lost Sakhalin the Korea and Formosa outright, parted with Okinawa and the Bonins indefinitely, forfeited rule over Manchuria and the Pacific Trust Territories. Half and Empire was lost. Today, Japan is neither a leader nor a follower. A nation of 88,000,900 people, confined to four small islands is foredoomed to struggle with internal problems 90„ aggravating that Lt

cannot be a leader. Yet Japan, is strong, as Asian nations go. It is in an enviable strategic position to play East against West. It bas too much inherent independence to follow. Japan will not follow. To achieve a viable economy — and therein lies the real key to Japan's’present and future — the nation must increase exports by 50 percent. Must Trade With U. S. If Japan is to be content to be aligned with the U. S. it must be allowed to trade with the U.S. and have America’s help In other areas of the Free World. One answer to Japan’s problem is to increase trade with Southeast Asia. Another, acording to many businessmen, is to increase trade with Communist China. (Japan’s prewar trade with the mainland was no more than 12 percent. Twa-way trade with the U. S. at present accounts for roughly one-third of all Japan's commerce.) Inevitably, and this the United States must accept. Japan will find a baste of national recovery not on an economy unduly oriented to the West, nor even more sorely dislocated to Asia. The recovery, however, probably will not come until the Cold Wai ends. Until then, Japan hangs it an uneasy balance, and whatevei else it may be calley, on an un ! easy reliance on the United States

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Experts Not Sure About Rainmakers Studies Indefinite Concerning Proof CORVALLIS, Ore. Aug. (INS) More experiments in wringing rain out of reluctant clouds are urged by three Oregon experts who finished a four-year study with the conclusion thgt nobobdy knows yet whether cloud-seeding actually makes rain fait The study was made by Fred Decker, associate professor of physics at Oregon state college; Russel Lincoln, research expert and John Day, physics instructor at _ JQ.S.C. They studied the results obtained by three rain-making organizazations hired in different years to increase rainfail on 2,624,000 acres of dry land in Sherman, Gilliam, and Morrow* counties of wheat growing eastern Oregon. The experiment began in 1950 and ended last fall. Yardstick Os Success The three research experts first fed statistics into computing machines and determined the cloud--0 seeding could be considered suc- * cessful only if an average of 12.6 *• inches or more of rain fell in a “ 10-month season. Actually, rainfall r " averaged 11:58 inches for the 1950 54 period. It also is true that In 1947 nain--0 fall totaled 16.6 inches without the 8 help of cloud-seeders. y Dr. Decker said: “There is no proof that the rainmakers actually made rain fall. » “We are not wet blankets. We e do not rule out the possibility that 1 man can make rain fall. E}u t more a experimentation is needed." Decker and Lincoln urged farmn ers al turn their attention and i- their money to true experiments, o So far, they indicated farmers have e contracted with companies that think they can change the weather ® rather than those which frankly 2 want to experiment. e g Milliner Predicts For Hats For Fall d U NEW YORK. Aug (INS) — y The fur hat will be a best seller t . this faU, predicts fashionable mille in'er Sally Victor. Mrs| Victor, noting the style y trend toward "little furs”, thinks r that fur hats in gay colors will be n extermely popular. , r “They won't all be mink," the j. milliner said, “and they won't neg cessarily match coats. Byway of demonstration, Mrs. - Victor has many far hats in her own tall collection. She shows expensive fur hats of white mink, dark mink, and black broadtail, but also offers gay little leopard pillboxes, and bothhlg and little hate in vivid blue yellow and red-dyed lapin —which is a fancy name for rabbit. Hong Kong — Area of modern Tied (. b ma. is esti matted to be roughly 4,200,600 square miles.

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PERHAPS just plain brains wiU be the talent department for Vivienne Potter, Reno, as “Miss Nevada** in the “Miss America’’ competition in Atlantic City, N. J. She is shown on steps of the U. 8. Supreme Court, Washington. The Nevada beauty is a law student at American university in the capital, and is the first law student ever to enter aa. ZlateHtaHMOlZ