Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1937 — Page 10
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Healthy Signs Found in Restraint Shown by U. S.,
Japanese Rank and File,
Incidents Such as Sinking of Panay in Another Era Might Easily Have Brought About War, History’s Pages Reveal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The most remarkable and encouraging cir-
cumstance surrounding the Japanese sinking of the Panay is to be found in the popular reaction among the peoples of the
two countries.
Throughout history such outrages as this time and again have pre-
_ cipitated wars. The. offending nation would become sullen and defiant and the aggrieved nation would flame with indignant determination to
wreak vengeance, each country prod-&
ding its Government and in turn being further incited by its Government until the lid blew off. , Remember the Maine as an instince not parallel, but still one in which President McKinley was driven to war by inflamed popular opinion.
Reaction Much Different How different the reaction in this
instance. Press dispatches from Tokyo report street scenes where Japanese
citizens. stopped Americans, removed their hats and gravely expressed their sorrow. Japanese citizens visiting American places of busines to extend regrets. Taxi, drivers and waitresses voicing regrets to Americans. No doubt the prompt action of the Government in making the most elaborate apologies encour«aged private Japanese citizens in their humble gestures toward . Americans, yet if the news dispatches are correct, they suggest a spontaneity of regret among the Japanese people which is the healthiest sign that has come out of Japan for some time. These street scenes would indicate that the Japanese people are now aware that their military people have committed an outrage for which the people feel humiliated and ashamed. Perhaps, through this incident, .the Japanese people are beginning to realize for the first time that they and their Emperor are being betrayed by the gangster clique which 'holds control. In any event it would seem that this militarist clique, which is responsible for the outrageous policy of Japan in recent years, cannot but have its prestige undermined when thus caught in such a public embarrassment before its own people.
Equally Healthy Display
On the American side there has been an equally healthy display of restraint and good judgment, not
only in Congress, where most mem-
bers have for the moment at least refrained from trying to make
cheap political capital out of swash- | buckling speeches, but also among:
the newspapers, which are -~'ways charged with warmongering by people who don't know much about how newspapers are edited. Here is the New York Daily News,
which for. years has run a big navy editorial every Monday morning the caption “Two Ships for One,” and which is popularly supposed to exhibit an anti-Japanese complex. Leading off on the Panay affair with an editorial entitled, “Now Let’s Keep 'Our Shirts On.” Certainly no warmongering in that. And on the ‘Pacific Coast, where anti-Japanese feeling is supposed to be strongest, you have even the Los -Angeles Times, which always.
has been imperialist, giving this advice in its “editorial: “The general public will do. well not to rock the boat, and to let the American State Department, which is in capable hands, handle the matter.” : Also the San Francisco Chronicle: “The immediate incident is particularly intolerable to us because its victims.are Americans. It is not
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TWO HUNTED AFTER . GROCERY ROBBERY
Manager Suspects Pair Who Staged Previous Theft.
Two Negroes who took an undetermined amount of money from a cash register of a Standard Grocery Store at 30th St. and Shriver Ave, yesterday and escaped in a car, were the objects of a police search today. Denver McCullough, 40, of 2915 Northwestern Ave. store manager, told police the two men had robbed his store once before. A. H. Kreber, 49, told police a Negro held him up at his store, 748 i W. Michigan St., yesterday, and escaped with $20. Mr. Krekor said that he drew his gun as the robber fled, but it failed to discharge.
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Townsend Will Confer on Problem at C. of C. Meeting.
- Governor Townsend is to discuss methods of improving Indiana’s industrial situation with businessmen from all sections of the state at the annual State Chamber of Commerce meeting in the Columbia Club tomorrow. : Representatives of all Chambers in Indiana are to attend the conference, which opens with a luncheon. Carl B. Fritsche, Dearborn, Mich., National Farm Chemurgic Council head, is to speak on “Alliance Between Industry and Agriculture.”
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