Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1940 — Page 10
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WASHINGTON, Sept.
Times Foreign Editor .
26—As Japan’s
in Asia” continues to expand at the point of her ever -ready
bayonet—a process which more and more threatens to involve the United States—mysterious and little-known: Thai-
land (Siam), may at any moment become pivotal.
‘new order
At this moment conversa-
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Yosuke Matsuoka New Man of Hour in East
As Japan Pushes Economic Claims in Asia
(Continued from Page One)
which prevents Japan from having an immigration quota on the same principle established for European nations. He accepts as necessary the restriction of Oriental immigration to the United States. His objection is not to what has been done, but to the method employed--a method which involves great loss of face to! the Japanese. Most Americans with a knowledge of the Far East and of Japanese psychology share Mr. Matsuoka's
Japan not only a tempting economic position in the Far East, but a restoration of hey great stake in American trade. Of the full possibilities of such a peace no statesman is more keenly aware than Mr. Matsuoka. ! But no Japanese statesman would care to inaugurate overtures until certain of two points: First,
that China would admit a stalemate—which is not yet at all certain—and secondly, that by reason
of short-sighted policies or lack |
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4 U tions are in progress between| viewpoint on this subject. the United States and Great mR | Britain concerning the com- IKE most of ihe present-day mon use of naval and air Strong men, once they are
Pe ] ~ . intrenched in power, Mr. Matbases in the Far East. Singa- 5.2
| Nathan Oser, acting director of {the college, and an assistant, Lenneth Baldridge, unsuccessfully sought a change of venue. :
of war strength on the part of European and American democracies, all the Orient might not even yet, in the prec mt unhappy state of world affairs, be thrown open | to Japanese conquest and exploi- |
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‘have warned that in the event ‘of such an agreement, Japan ‘will take such steps as may
be deemed necessary.”
In international parlance, language is regarded as.
Could Threaten Singapore From Thailand, Japan
Also Rangoon and |
Britain and with sus-
Formerly Great
such war-like. there is reason to be|lieve that Japan is only looking for {a pretext to send troops into Thai-/ {land under a new treaty the terms of which are sufficiently elastic to, mean anything Japan wants them (to mean.
suoka has little love for, or faith in, democratic processes. He bhelieves that American meddling in Oriental matters, dating back to the Portsmouth, N, H., Treaty of 1906 and ending the Russo-Jap-anese war, has repeatedly been a bar to Japan's legitimate expansion. He views the United States as one: of the ‘have got” nations, interested along with England, France and the Netherlands, in maintaining the territorial status quo. He feels that only an unfortunate accident of timing is re-
| sponsible for modern Japan's ter- | ritorial limitations.
| national could |
‘threaten the British Straits settle- | ments and Singapore at the south- | ern tip of the Malay Peninsula by | land and air. 'southern Burma on the Indian | Ocean.
Where intertreaties, including the Nine Power Pact guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, tend to hamper and thwart what he regards as Japan's manifest destiny, he has long favored their cold repudiation by Japan. In, justification, he alleges coercion and duress by the “have got” nations aligned against Japan, a “have not” nation, and
tation.
‘Meantime, what Japan ultima- | - tely does may be decided, not by
the sane statesmanship of Matsucka, but by the blundering ruthlessness of the Japanese military oligarchy. Should England fall, it is doubtful if even the prospects of a profitabie and an honorable peace with China would deter the Japanese militarists from an attempt to outdistance the conquests of Genghis Khan. Possibly the greatest safeguard against such a world-shaking catastrophe is the fear, amounting almost to a certainty, that such an adventure would unify the democracies of the world in an even more unbeatable force than the war in China has solidified behind Chiang Kaishek. However great his contempt for the peace-time indecision of American democracy, Mr. Matsuoka, as clearly as any presentday statesman, understands the potentialities of an American industry - fully mobilized to imple-
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| France eyed each other |picion in the Far East. France took 190,000 square smiles in the northern part of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, land Britain 15,000 square miles in the south. Siam was left as a sort of
ment this country in its right to live in the peaceful pursuit of its legitimate economic life.
finds further justification in the argument that Japan must expand to survive and that survival and self-preservation are laws of nature taking precedence over even the most sacred treaties. To
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necessary buffer state in between. Today France
needed as a buffer.
the Japanese may want to
ain’'s Far Eastern Gibraltar.
[it “legally.” - Treaty of Amity Signed
Japan has just sighed a
each other's territory; the exchange of information, and,
is down and out and Britain is seriously threatened. So Siam, or Thailand, is no longer On the contrary, | with Japan in French Indo-China, use Thailand as a highway by which to get at Malaya-and Singapore, BritIf 80, ‘she can easily find a Wey of doing
new “treaty of amity” with' Thailand. It consists of three main points. First, it provides for mutual respect for second, for
fail to understand or to accept this, to Americans and British,
«wholly untenable attitude toward
international law and practice, is to misunderstand or .repudiate all Japanese nationalist psychology. Mr. Matsuoka is no starry-eyed dreamer of the Hitler type, guided by the mumblings of astrologers and sooth-sayers. Neither is he a bombastic tub-thumper and chest-beater of the Mussolini type. He is a hard-boiled realist, given to looking before he leaps politically, combining the cunning of an astute Oriental with the cold practicality of a shrewd American business executive.
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every sign of becoming the Japanese Fuehrer will, on the first proof of weakness of those forces opposing Japan's ambitions, move in with a ruthlessness equal to anything demonstrated by Hitler, The hope lies in the fact that, being a realist, he will never, so long as he commands the situation, underestimate the strength or the recuperative powers of a battered but undefeated Britain, or of a Britain and an America thrown together in a natural combination for self-preservation.
” » E34 R. MATSUOKA knows that
backed by the United States and Great Britain, could be negotiated in a manner that would insure elimination of Japan’s reasonable grievances, assure her the enforceable safeguards against Communistic menace which she is justified in demanding, and furnish her with economic outlets. on the Asiatic mainland. He also knows that the other world powers are more disposed
than they were 20 years ago to |
recognize Japan's claim to definite economic advantages on the Asiatic mainland that are hers by right of geographic propinquity.
Maj. Roosevelt Sent to Eqypt
CAIRO, Sept. 26 (U. P.).—Maj. Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late President Theodore . Roosevelt,
today was with the British forces |
in Egypt, still looking for a “fight.” Mr. Roosevelt was granted an emergency commission as second lieutenant in a Middlesex regiment, which he gave up to command the International Brigade in Finland, but” the war ended
before he could leave with his .
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On his return to the British army he was given the rank of major and saw action with the British at Narvik. Before coming to Egypt he trained machine gun- | ners in England.
HERE is in this stocky and the world of 1940 is not the 5 2 =
agressive Japanese business | World Of 1922 (the year of the HIS hard-boiled businessman man-statesman little of the | 'ashington Disarmament Confer- presently heading the Japsuavity or the over-emphasized | €P¢¢ and the accompanying | anese Foreign Office knows that, courtesy ordinarily associated treaties, including the Nine | With such a peace, would go to |
with Japanese statesmen. Neither Power, Pact), Neither| 5 it ihe is there any, of the bull-in-a- | World of 1931, when Japan pro-cnina-shop tebhnique of the Jap- | voked the Mukden incident of anese soldier. whose ultra-aggres- | Sept. 18, which resulted in the essiveness has forced Japan into her | tablishment of Manchuko, and, present, not-so-happy situation in | thanks to the vacillation of the China. then British Foreign Minister, Sir Throughout the Far East, Mr. | John Simon, started the League Matsuoka is referred to as the tool | of Nations over the cliff to of the ultra-aggressive Kwantung | oblivion. army clique, but none among his He knows that after nine years many American friends, in which | Manchuko is an accomplished fact. group the writer presumes to class | He knows that, despite world- | himself, believes that Mr. Mat- | wide sympathy for China, Japan | suoka ever has been or will be | was not without some provocation the tool of any man or group. He | in her troubles with a formerlymay be wrong. and he may be | treaty-defaulting and disorganized’ Obdurate, but it will be on the | China. He knows that even after basis of his own convictions. three years of bloody warfareand In this fact lies both the hope | financial losses, during ~which and the danger. Japan has been able to obtain The danger lies in the fact that, | nothing better than 4a military actuated by a limitless ambition | stale-mate, an honorable peace * for his own country and faith in | with China is still possible. her destiny, this man who shows Such a peace, expedited and
third, for ‘consultation on matters w hich concern their common interests.” Japan, of course, will call the tunes. Thailand is too weak to resist. Should the United States and Great Britain strike a bargain for the use ‘of Singapore, therefore, it would not ‘take Japan long to convince Thailand that here was a matter which concerned “their common interests.” |
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Secret Clauses Possible In Washington it is thought likely that there may be secret clauses fur‘ther clarifying the treaty. Declared, Yasukichi Yatabe, former Japanese | Minister to Thailand: “Although we do not know whether there is a special understanding defining these common in-| terests, it cannot be denied that the| most important is the .construcion| ‘and mainenance of an autonomous ‘new order in East Asia for East Asiatics.” Mr. Yatabe frankly attaches immense importance to the mere fact that “the treaty legally confirms the Thailand-Japan political relations,” whereas heretofore it has been assumed that Siam was solely the dependent of France and Britain. The ‘change, he added, “should be con‘sidered as of the greatest significance ... an epochal event.” |
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The real significance, it is observed here, is only too obvious. Utterly powerless, militarily speaking, Thailand's one and only importance to Japan, | Britain or France strategic. S Should things come to a show- |
down between Britain and Japan, Thailand could provide Japan with | bases very close to Singapore, some | on the Paciflc side, some on the | shores of the Indian Ocean. On the other hand, should Britain | win the war and resume her sarong) position in the Far East, Japan| might dig a canal cross Thailand, | connecting the China Sea with the | Bay of Bengal, thereby spoiling | much of the importance of Singa- | pore, both commercially and strategically. Such a canal has 1ong | been the dream of the very clique | which today is behind Japan's ‘new | | order in Asia.”
JAPANESE A THREAT | TO U. S., TCHOU SAYS |
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Sept. 26] | (U. P.).—Successful Japanese in-| vasion of French Indo-China would end American power in the Far East and leave no bases in that area for the U. S. fleet, Col. M. Thomas | Tchou, former secretary to Chinese | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, {said today. Col. Tchou said Japanese occupation of French Indo-China would give them a base to attack British Burma, enable them to surround Siam and eventually invade Singapore from the back door. He asserted that a Japanese success would make it “more difficult for the United States to defend the Philippines.
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