Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1940 — Page 10
AXIS WANTS U. S.
FLEET IN PACIFIC]
Japan Is Assigned Role ol Keeping Our Navy Immobilized; Hitler Is Convinced Roosevelt Eventually Will Use
Warships to Convoy
Supplies to Britain.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Nazi pressure on Japan to prevent any. substantial part of the United States fleet from leaving the Pacific is now being applied, a high authority
told the writer today.
This pressure, according to the same source, will almost Q
certainly be increased early in the Tew year.
At the same time the Ger“mans are expected to intensify vastly their efforts to wipe out as nearly as they can all traffic from the United States and Canada to Great
-Britain. : The more success the Germans have in doing this, the more intense will become the campaign for the use of American warships to convoy British and neutral shipping across the Atlantic. The role assigned to Japan by the Rome-Berlin. Axis is to immobilize, insofar as she can, the United States Navy.
Far East Diversion Is Aim
The most effective method of %oing this, it is pointed out, is for Japan to create a diversion in the Far East. This would not necessarily mean war. - It would entail, however, some new and threatening move by Japan designed to convince the United States that it would. be unwise to withdraw warships from the Pacific. Some maneuver by the Japanese fleet within the next 90 days, as a sort of preliminary warning to the United States, would hot cause surprise here. Japanese spokesmen with whom I have talked make no secret of the fact that the first aim of the three-power alliance is to - forestall the transfer of American warships from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Indeed, one of the principal reasons for sending Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura to Washington as Ambassador is said to be to persuade this country not to disturb the Pacific status quo—including the existing naval balance,
Attitude Reversed
This represents - an about-face for Japan. When the American fleet was first ordered to make its principal base in the Pacific, the Japanese made a considerable todo about it. But times have changed, and the Japanese are opportunists. Their relations with both the United States and Russia are extremely uncertain, not to say strained, and an alliance with Germany and Italy looked good. Says Article Three of the treaty of alliance: “Germany, Italy and Japan , . undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means when one of the three contracting powers is attacked by a power at present not involved
1 Li di LOAN ASSN.
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in the European war or:in the Chi-nese-Japanese conflict.” This pact calls for German assistance if Japan is attacked either
by the Soviet Union or the United|§ To the Japanese that is]
States. worth a great deal. Hence they were willing to pay Germany her price, United States.
Hitler Depends on Japan
Regardless of what President|s
Roosevelt has to say now regard-
ing the omission of warships from /|-
his program of lending or leasing armaments to Britain, diplomatic circles here are skeptical. They
think he will change his mind if|\ ahd when Britain must have them S\N
to survive,
Berlin is known to feel the same |<
way about it. Hitler is convinced that the President fully intends to carry out his promise to aid Brif-
ain in every way short of war—up|§
to and including the use of Ameri-
can warships for convoy or other| So, it is reported here, |y he is calling on Tokyo to do every-|
purposes.
thing it can to prevent it.
Should it happen regardless,
there is reason to believe Germany | \ 4 might choose to classify it as an act of war and call on Japan to|§
do likewise.
Japan, it appears, would ‘be free \ to decide for herself whether such|N
an act constituted an “attack” within the meaning of the alliance, but she would be on a spot. So
there is reason to believe she will |§
hold the American fleet in the Pacific—if she can—pending the out-
come of the next few crucial|Q
months.
WAGE-EARNERS BACK §
FREE TEXT BOOKS
The Republican Wage Earners League of Marion County last night indorsed proposed State legislation for free text books for school children. ‘William I. Yager, league presi-
dent, named a legislative commit-|>>
tee to develop a legislative program. The members are J. H. Drill of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; S. P. Meadows, of
the United Brotherhood of Car-!
penters and Joiners of America; Charles W. Kern, of the Indiana Building Trades Council, Courtney
‘| Hammond, of the Painters’ Union;
Kenneth Corbin, also of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen; Mabel Lowe of the United Garment Workers; Edward Spangler, of the Elevator Constructors’ Internation-
al, and Albert Speck, and Leon
Worthall.
Strongest Man : Killed in Battle
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (U. P.).
—Strength and Health magazine |
has reported the receipt of
| censored letters from France in-
dicating that Charles Rigoulot, one-time strongest man in the world, had ‘been killed in action before the French capitulation, Rigoulot, despite loss of a ® finger in the first World War, set a world’s record of 402 pounds lifted to full arm’s length overe head in two motions, technically called the clean and jerk. He held many other lifting records and was also an auto racing driver and European heavyweight wrese
tling champion in 1937.
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