Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1940 — Page 5

FRIDAY, DEC. 20,1940 _

NAZI-BLACKMAILED

JAPAN IS

U.S. FEAR

5 Capital Observers Feel Hitler May Assign Nipponese Role Of Keeping America Busy in Own Hemisphere;

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By WILLIAM

i Plays on Tokyo’s Dread of Russia.

PHILIP SIMMS

ne Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—There is growing concern

here lest Japan allow Hitler

to blackmail her into pulling

German chestnuts out of the fire at the expense of herself

~and the United States.

= Not once but several times, it has been duly noted, For‘eign Minister Yosuke Matsuoke has warned this eountry that there will be war unless we “mind our own business.”

Yesterday he did it again —not bluntly or unpleasantly . but by indirection and pleas-

inated by a brand-new set of conditions. : Like Germany, Italy and Russia,

.antly—at a farewell luncheon japan has gone totalitarian. Like

“in -honor of the new Am-

- bassador to Washington, A

the others, she has set out to create a “new order.” Together, they are bent on establishing “a new world

miral Kichisaburo Namura, order.” Germany and Italy claim

“soon to leave Tokyo for his post here. U.S. Ambassador

-Joseph C. Grew was present.

|Europe and Africa as their sphere. Russia, it seems, is to have northeastern Europe and Central Asia, while Japan is to have Eastern Asia land the South Pacific.

What Mr. Matsuoka did was to

“'beseech his “American friends to “think twice, thrice, nay a thousand *.times before they take the leap that)

may prove fatal to all humanity.” “America's entry i into the war, he said, would bring Armageddon. What he meant was that if America went in, Japan would be “in honor bound” by her alliance with Germany and Italy to go in, too. That is to say, if the three Allies . Simms put the blame on 3 ps the United States ~ m=which they could hardly fail to do.

‘:* Feel Matsuoka Sincere There is no inclination here to

Want U. S. to Stay Out

The United istates, to avoid war, will have to confine its interests to the Western Hemisphere. That is what the Japanese mean when they speak of “minding our own business.” What happens to Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands does not concern us and we are to keep out or else. ! This is the thesis not only of the Nipponese militarists, but also, according to reliable indications, of former Japanese liberals. Such is the message—and the warning— that Admiral Nomura is believed to be bringing to Washington. But there is yet another disturbing angle. Prime Minister Churchill, Lord Beaverbrook and other British spokesmen are openly warning of a probable Nazi attempt to invade Britain within 60 or 90 days.

Susceptible to Nazi Pressure

PLANS IRRIGATION OF ARID RANGELAND

SIERRA BLANCA, Tex. Dec. 20

make the dream of Great Plains’ cattlemen come true if his plans are successful. The rancher, John Roseborough, operator of a huge ranch north of Sierra Blanca, plans to farm as much as 200,000 acres through irrigation from shallow wells. He plans to raise calves and feed the animals on his ranch with home-grown feed, and if he does it in the arid Far West Texas area he may revolutionize the ranching industry in this region. The experiment is new in West Texas, where stockmen raise beef and send the calves to northern feeding lots for fattening. Success of the plan probably will mean a wide expansion of the livestock business. Roseborough said he expects to experiment with the irrigation from shallow wells on about 400 acres at first and to enlarge the area gradually if the plan works. Drillers strike water at about 300 feet on the Lockheart-Roseborough ranch which Roseborough operates. The water rises within a few feet of the surface of the wells. -

(U. P.).—A West Texas rancher may |

TOKYO, Dec. 20 (U. P). — A Japanese military mission will leave soon for Germany and Italy to study the blitzkrieg method of warfare, the War Office: announced today. At the same time the Cabinet in-

formation board announced that “agreement of views” had been reached for establishment of commissions to implement the threepower pact which made Japan the ally of Germany and Italy, There will be a téchnical commission, a general commission, a military commission and an economic commission; it was announced. The Army’s blitzkrieg mission will go by way of Siberia and European Russia, it was announced. Lieut. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, inspector general of Army aviation and director of general military aviation headquarters, will lead it. . The mission will visit the Axis countries, now Japan’s military allies, at the invitation of the German and Italian armies. In addition to studying the blitz-

krieg, the Japanese mission will

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMI Japanese Army Missionfo Study Blitzkrieg Method of Warfare in Germany and Italy

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study the use of modern arms by the German and Italian armies and the equipment of individual soldiers. Newspapers returned to.their attack on the United States and its opposition to Japan’s policies. America’s “contemptuous” atti-

tude in seeking to block Japan’s southward expansion “can only be regarded as a comedy of the Pacific which may well prove a Pacific tragedy for the United States,” the extreme Nationalist newspaper Kokumin said. Japan’s expansion is a historical necessity, not merely a matter of possibility or impossibility, the newspaper said, and the American people are commiting a “fatal blunder” by not recognizing that necessity. Japanese newspapers completely ignored the speech yesterday of Joseph Clark Grew, American Ambassador, informing Japanese that Americans wouid uphold both their obligations and their rights and would judge Japan by its acts, not by the dress in which the acts were

presented.

There was no indication that the Ambassador's remarks would have any effect. The government is completely committed to its policy in China and the Far East generally.

22 Guzzle Sodas On the Professor

Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., Dec. 20.— Twenty-two students of a firstyear shorthand class at Valparaiso University will visit a downtown ice’ cream bar today for sodas. And the class’ professor, M. E. Zimmerman, is going to pay the check. Each year Mr. * Zimmerman challenges the class that mem-

bers can’t compile an average of 95 on .their December tests. This year, when all the figures had straightened out, the class average was 95.2717. So he pays off.

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- eriticize the Japanese Foreign Min- = ister for his warning. On the con- * trary, every one, from the highest to the lowest, gives him credit for = sincerity. ‘They are convinced that * the last thing in the world he wants {is war with the United States. More

‘than that, they believe he intends .. to do everything he can to reduce > the tension between the two coun7. tries. . But, it is feared here, there may “not be much that he can do. True, he is sending Admiral Nomura to Washington to speak for him and ‘> for Japan. And he could scarcely have made a better choice. But Mr. » Matsuoka and Admiral Nomura are “not exactly free agents. Both, in a *» way, are prisoners. They are dom-

They pointrout that for Hitler it may even be a case of do or die. If this is true—if the Fuehrer is in such desperate need of an early victory—he will certainly wring from Japan and his other allies all possible aid. And Japan is particularly suseeptible just now to Nazi pressure. . Japan, for example, is afraid of the Soviet Union. That is the chief reason she joined the Rome-Berlin Axis. She needs Germany to help her hold Russia off. Should Japan, therefore, refuse to comply with Hitler's demands while the Nazis are trying for a knockout against| England, the Nazi war lord would probably try to club her into acquiescence by threatening to give Russia a free hand later on—or even to aid Russia against Japan.

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